Practicing and exploring
Test your knowledge and understanding by answering some questions, getting some hands-on practice, and exploring the topics covered in this chapter with deeper research.
Exercise 2.1 – Online material
Online materials can be extra content written by me for this book, or it can be references to content created by Microsoft or third parties.
Understanding async and await
C# 5 introduced two C# keywords when working with the Task type that enable easy multithreading. You can read about them and see a code example at the following link:
https://github.com/markjprice/cs13net9/blob/main/docs/ch02-async-await.md
Explore Spectre
No, not the villainous organization from the James Bond films! Spectre is a package that enhances console apps. You can read about it at the following link: https://spectreconsole.net/.
Exercise 2.2 – Practice exercises
Practice exercises go deeper into the topics for this chapter.
