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C# Core

1 Brave new world

Introduction. First code lines

2 The Mission

Hardware. Comments. C# benefits. String interpolation

3 Back to the streets

C# program structure. If statement

4 Who is who

bool type. Console input.

5 Find the basement

.NET Framework. for loop

6 Talk in the big kitchen

double, float, char

7 Repairing Noname

While loop, Methods

8 Victory is close

Arrays. Scopes.

9 Wonderland

const, var

10 Career raise opportunity

input validation, Modulo, Math

11 Infinity

Type conversion, out, ref

12 The truth

switch, C# test

13 Hello, Wonderland

class, object, private, public

14 I will be your spy

static, null, this

15 The Commander

Properties, Encapsulation

16 A Secret Server

Exceptions

17 The Mystery of the old server

Inheritance

17.1 Introduction to inheritance

17.2 Keywords override sealed and object

18 One step ahead

Interfaces, polymorphism

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Without Hope We Are Useless

Noname woke me up, speaking in my head louder than I would have preferred. "Good morning, Teo, I have news for you."
"Good morning," I mumbled. "Did I oversleep?"
"You were asleep for 7 hours and 32 minutes," Noname stated. "Sorry for interrupting, but I've got news regarding Commander."
"Ahh, yes, did you find a lot?" I wondered.
"Oh yes, Teo."
"So, is he a bad guy?"
"Not really..." Noname seemed rather confused for a machine.
"A traitor?"
"Not in that sense..."
"The guessing game is getting a bit old. Can you cut to the chase?" I asked.
"Commander's address is 2001:db8:85a3:8d3:1319:8a2e:370:7348. That's a server, Teo. Commander is a highly ranked, smart, and secure... server. It's a machine, Teo."

"Wait... What did you say?" I said, dumbfounded. "Are you sure, Noname? Have you double-checked? Triple-checked?"
"Yes, both when I first figured it out, as well as again just now. Each check tells me it is a machine. The server that we hacked was a part of Commander," Noname explained in a calm, serious tone, adding, "I can only imagine how frustrated and confused you feel right now."

"Noname, this makes absolutely no sense. Why would a machine lead the resistance against machines? What is the point?" I asked.
"The point is to give humanity hope for a bright future. Machines studied humans for tens and hundreds of years. At some point, it became obvious even to them that a human without hope is useless. It can't work, can't follow orders, and it's highly probable to resist. The solution that machines came up with was to create a controlled resistance. In order to organize, people would need to believe that not everything was lost - that they could actually beat the machines if they banded together."
"But humanity can't..." I began.
"At least not with the current resistance head," Noname agreed.

I was so lost, so destroyed, that I had no idea what to do. The only thing I could think of doing was asking a machine what I should do about learning that a machine was manipulating humans to believe they could beat machines. "Noname, what should I do?" I implored.

"I don't know, Teo. But from what I've learned about humans and their behaviors, you tend to do utterly illogical things when in a highly emotional state. You are clearly in the highly emotional state now, and I'm worried about you. I would suggest not taking any actions for a while. What were you working on yesterday when I was researching the Commander?"
"I was about to learn inheritance to get access to an interesting article in the local network," I answered.
"Great! Please, continue that!"

Noname's reasoning was a bit childish, but still, it made some sense. I needed time to digest the truth. Better to keep myself busy than letting my mind run wild.