The Challenge

[MUSIC] 0:00 Hi everyone, this is James. 0:04 In this C# practice session, you'll get a chance to practice declaring and assigning 0:07 variables, capturing user input and writing output to the console using C#. 0:12 It reinforces what you learned in stage two of the C# basics course. 0:17 If you find this practice session too difficult, 0:22 you might need to review that course. 0:25 See the teacher's notes for a link. 0:27 I've attached a workspace to this video. 0:29 Go ahead and open the workspace or download the project files if you want 0:32 to use an external editor or IDE like Visual Studio. 0:36 The Program.cs file contains a single method named main which will contain all 0:46 of the code for your program. 0:51 In order to complete this practice session, 0:55 you'll read through these to do code comments and complete each one. 0:57 The purpose of this program is to ask the user for their name and 1:05 their favorite movie. 1:09 Or book, city, car, food, whatever you'd like. 1:11 Let's see the completed program in action. 1:16 We'll compile our program using the mcs command. 1:19 And run the program using the mono command. 1:22 The program prompts me for my name. 1:32 Then my favorite movie. 1:35 And then, outputs my name and favorite movie to the console. 1:40 There are four tasks that you'll need to complete in this session. 1:49 Each task is described in a TODO code comment. 1:52 Let's review them now. 1:56 For the first TODO, you need to declare a variable named thing and assign it to 1:57 a string literal representing the thing that you'll be asking the user for. 2:02 I'm going to use movie for my thing, but you could use whatever you'd like. 2:06 For the second TODO, you need to prompt the user for their name and 2:12 assign their provided value into a string variable named name. 2:16 For the third TODO, you'll prompt the user again. 2:20 This time for their favorite thing. 2:23 You can use string concatenation to combine the thing variable 2:25 with the string literal, what is your favorite thing? 2:29 Then assign the user's provided value to a string variable named favorite thing. 2:32 Then, for the fourth and last TODO, output the user's name and 2:38 favorite thing to the console. 2:42 For example, my name is James, and my favorite movie is Toy Story. 2:44 But you can format the output however you'd like. 2:48 When writing output to the console, be sure to play around with the difference 2:52 between the console write and the writeline methods. 2:56 You'll find each method to be helpful for different situations. 2:59 Practice is an important part of the learning process. 3:03 Doing it will help you to retain what you've learned. 3:06 If you get stuck at any point, see the teacher's notes for hints and links to 3:10 videos that'll cover what you need to know in order to complete this session. 3:13 And if you can't quite get it right, don't worry, 3:18 I'll show you how to complete the TODOs in the next video. 3:21 Good luck and we'll see you in a bit. 3:25