Terminology
Term | Definition |
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Console | This is a term for your Terminal or Powershell when running and interacting with an application |
Console.WriteLine(""); | Is a tool to interact with the user when coding a C# application. This can display important data or ask for information from the user. This will display whatever is written within the "" and generate a new line. |
Console.Write(""); | Is a tool to interact with the user when coding a C# application. This can display important data or ask for information from the user. This will display whatever is written within the "" and will not generate a new line. |
Console.ReadLine() | Is a tool to wait for the users input and reads the input as a string. Generally assigned to a variable to store the response. |
\n | Is a special sequence that represents a blank line. This is generally used in a Write or WriteLine to format what is displaying to the user. This will output two blank lines, one for the Write or WriteLine and one because we included \n . |
dotnet run | When in a dotnet project directory if you type dotnet run it will run the program once. |
dotnet watch run | When in a dotnet project directory if you type dotnet watch run it will run the program once. Then it waits for a file to be saved, and then runs the program again with the new saved change. |