Practicing and exploring

Test your knowledge and understanding by answering some questions, getting some hands-on practice, and exploring this chapter's topics with deeper research.

Exercise 5.1 – Test your knowledge

Answer the following questions:

1. What are the seven access modifier keywords and combinations of keywords, and what do they do?
2. What is the difference between the static, const, and readonly keywords when applied to a type member?
3. What does a constructor do?
4. Why should you apply the [Flags] attribute to an enum type when you want to store combined values?
5. Why is the partial keyword useful?
6. What is a tuple?
7. What does the record keyword do?
8. What does overloading mean?
9. What is the difference between the following two statements? (Do not just say a ">" character!)

public List<Person> Children = new();
public List<Person> Children => new();

1. How do you make a method parameter optional?

Exercise 5.2 – Practice with access modifiers...