C# - An Introduction - C# Statements

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A C# statement is the same as a complete sentence in the English language. This is the best and simplest analogy that illustrates what a statement is. Look at the following example:

I like Microsoft products.

Anyone reading this sentence will understand that I like Microsoft products.  However, if I write it like this:

I like.

What do you like? This is what you may ask because it’s not a complete sentence.  The same thing goes with a C# statement.   It forms a complete instruction that the C# compiler can understand.  So the next statement adds two numbers and stores the value into memory.

memory = 2 + 5;

Note that C# statements end with the semicolon “;”, whereas English sentences end with a full stop “.”  In this last C# statement we told the compiler to put the result of adding these two numbers into memory.  Don’t worry about understanding the code right now; that will be covered later on.

You must know that C# programs consist of sequences of C# statements that execute in ascending order like the following example:

{
statement 1
statement 2
statement 3
}

The first statement (statement 1) will execute first, then statement2 and end up with the last one (statement 3) being executed.

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