Set Up Your Environment

📖 Instructions#

A computer program is a set of instructions that a computer executes to perform a task.

To write computer programs, programmers use Integrated Development Environments (IDEs).

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In this course, we will use Visual Studio Code (VS Code). It is a free, lightweight, and extensible IDE that supports many programming languages.

You may use another IDE if you prefer, as long as it supports the desired programming language.

In this course, we’ll develop a Console Games Library: a console application where users can play simple games in the console.

Console Application Demo

The first step is to create a project in VS Code.

✅ What to Do#

🎯 Expected Outcome#

At the end, you should have the following file structure in VS Code:

ConsoleGamesLibrary
    ConsoleGamesLibrary.csproj
    ConsoleGamesLibrary.sln
    Program.cs