Your first C# program

C# code lives inside classes and methods. A program starts in a special method called Main. To print a line of text, you call Console.WriteLine. Newer project templates let you skip writing Main by using top-level statements, but the compiler still creates it for you behind the scenes.

using System;

class Program {
    static void Main() {
        Console.WriteLine("Hello, sky!");
    }
}

How it reads

• Console.WriteLine(...) prints a line of text to the console
• static void Main() is where the program starts running
• using System; brings in the namespace that contains Console

Cloud tip: C# statements end with a semicolon, and every line of code lives inside a class and a method.