Before I start I will say that this isn’t going to be some petty post that spends lots of time justifying and then putting down other programming languages. I’ve used C# and many other languages and I personally have no real favourites. In this example we will install a text editor on our Raspberry Pi and then the development tools required to program in C#
First of all its good practice to update and upgrade first, open up the terminal and type in the following
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sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
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I quite like the geany editor there are other alernatives as well, to install this type in the following on the console
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sudo apt-get install geany
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Now lets install the Mono development tools required to program in C#, again at the console type the following
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sudo apt-get install mono-complete
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Now we will created a folder for our code called HelloWorldCs, we will navigate to that folder and then create a file in geany called HelloWorldCs.cs. In the terminal enter this
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mkdir HelloWorldCs cd HelloWorldCs geany HelloWorldCs.cs
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This will open geany now enter the following code and save it
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using System;
public class HelloWorld
{
public static void Main()
{
Console.WriteLine("Hello Raspberry Pi!");
}
}
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Compile this with the following
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gmcs HelloWorldCs.cs
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Now run the executable
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mono HelloWorldCs.exe
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You should see something like the following, don’t worry it will get more exciting …. hopefully.
C sharp on pi
