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Harrison Ferrone
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Harrison Ferrone is an instructional content creator for LinkedIn Learning and Pluralsight, tech editor for the Ray Wenderlich website, and used to write technical documentation on the Mixed Reality team at Microsoft. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder and Columbia College, Chicago. After a few years as an iOS developer at small start-ups, and one Fortune 500 company, he fell into a teaching career and never looked back.
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Introducing operators

Operator symbols in programming languages represent the arithmetic, assignment, relational, and logical functionality that types can perform. Arithmetic operators represent basic math functions, while assignment operators perform math and assignment functions together on a given value. Relational and logical operators evaluate conditions between multiple values, such as greater than, less than, and equal to.

C# also offers bitwise and miscellaneous operators, but these won't come into play for you until you're well on your way to creating more complex applications.

At this point, it only makes sense to cover arithmetic and assignment operators; we'll get to relational and logical functionality when it becomes relevant in the next chapter.

Arithmetic and assignments

You're already familiar with the arithmetic operator symbols from school:

  • + for addition
  • - for subtraction
  • / for division
  • * for multiplication

C# operators follow the conventional...

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Harrison Ferrone

Harrison Ferrone is an instructional content creator for LinkedIn Learning and Pluralsight, tech editor for the Ray Wenderlich website, and used to write technical documentation on the Mixed Reality team at Microsoft. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder and Columbia College, Chicago. After a few years as an iOS developer at small start-ups, and one Fortune 500 company, he fell into a teaching career and never looked back.
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