Control variable scope and logic using code blocks in C#

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.NET
Visual Studio Code

Use code blocks with more confidence, understanding how they impact the visibility and accessibility of both higher and lower-level constructs in your code.

Learning objectives

After you complete this module, you'll be able to:

  • Understand the impact of declaring and initializing variables inside and outside of code blocks
  • Remove code blocks in if statements to improve readability when there's only one line of code in the body of the code block
  • Describe the purpose and scoping hierarchy for namespaces, classes, and methods

Prerequisites

  • Experience creating simple C# applications that include console I/O and access the methods of .NET classes such as String and Random
  • Experience using Visual Studio Code to develop, build, and run C# console applications that implement arrays, if-elseif-else statements, and foreach statements
  • Experience using operators to evaluate an expression or condition in C#