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C# C# Basics (Retired) Console I/O Console I/O

MIGUEL PIETER
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MIGUEL PIETER
Courses Plus Student 756 Points

Assign bookTitle the title of your favorite book

On C# Basics there is: Assign bookTitle the title of your favorite book. How is this done. I'm stocked. What do I do?

1 Answer

Chase Marchione
Chase Marchione
155,055 Points

Hi Miguel,

1) Declaring the variable (named bookTitle, of type string... and using a semicolon to tell the compiler that the statement is over):

string bookTitle;

2) Assigning bookTitle to the title of your favorite book (using the equals sign to specify that a value is to be stored, and putting the string value in double quotes because it is string data):

string bookTitle = "That Book I Like A Lot";

3) Using the System.Console.Write() method to print a specified prompt string (message) to console:

string bookTitle = "That Book I Like A Lot";

System.Console.Write("Enter a book title: ");

4) Storing the user's response back to the bookTitle variable (using the ReadLine() method to get the next line, which is the user's response to the prompt):

string bookTitle = "That Book I Like A Lot";

System.Console.Write("Enter a book title: ");

bookTitle = System.Console.ReadLine();

Hope this helps!

string bookTitle = "That Book I Like A Lot";

System.Console.Write("Enter a book title: ");

string bookTitle = System.Console.ReadLine();