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Hi everyone, this is James.

In this C# practice session, you'll get a chance to practice declaring and assigning

variables, capturing user input and writing output to the console using C#.

It reinforces what you learned in stage two of the C# basics course.

If you find this practice session too difficult,

you might need to review that course.

See the teacher's notes for a link.

I've attached a workspace to this video.

Go ahead and open the workspace or download the project files if you want

to use an external editor or IDE like Visual Studio.

The Program.cs file contains a single method named main which will contain all

of the code for your program.

In order to complete this practice session,

you'll read through these to do code comments and complete each one.

The purpose of this program is to ask the user for their name and

their favorite movie.

Or book, city, car, food, whatever you'd like.

Let's see the completed program in action.

We'll compile our program using the mcs command.

And run the program using the mono command.

The program prompts me for my name.

Then my favorite movie.

And then, outputs my name and favorite movie to the console.

There are four tasks that you'll need to complete in this session.

Each task is described in a TODO code comment.

Let's review them now.

For the first TODO, you need to declare a variable named thing and assign it to

a string literal representing the thing that you'll be asking the user for.

I'm going to use movie for my thing, but you could use whatever you'd like.

For the second TODO, you need to prompt the user for their name and

assign their provided value into a string variable named name.

For the third TODO, you'll prompt the user again.

This time for their favorite thing.

You can use string concatenation to combine the thing variable

with the string literal, what is your favorite thing?

Then assign the user's provided value to a string variable named favorite thing.

Then, for the fourth and last TODO, output the user's name and

favorite thing to the console.

For example, my name is James, and my favorite movie is Toy Story.

But you can format the output however you'd like.

When writing output to the console, be sure to play around with the difference

between the console write and the writeline methods.

You'll find each method to be helpful for different situations.

Practice is an important part of the learning process.

Doing it will help you to retain what you've learned.

If you get stuck at any point, see the teacher's notes for hints and links to

videos that'll cover what you need to know in order to complete this session.

And if you can't quite get it right, don't worry,

I'll show you how to complete the TODOs in the next video.

Good luck and we'll see you in a bit.