Dog Tag Development, Inc. is dedicated to our mission to increase the number of veterans employed in the information technology community by providing software development education. This is why one of the main components of the course we are designing will include C#, pronounced C-sharp.

C# is a hybrid of C and C++, and was developed as a Microsoft programming language in order to compete with Sun’s Java language.  It is an object-oriented programming language that is based on C++ with elements from Visual Basic and Java. Like Java, C# provides automatic garbage collection, whereas traditional C and C++ do not. C# was created by Microsoft and also standardized by the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA). Microsoft designed C# as its flagship programming language for the .NET environment.

Our programmers at Dog Tag Development, Inc. feel that teaching today’s highly  skilled vets will give them the necessary technological, edge to be highly competitive in the Information Technology scene.

Many of you may be asking, just as I was, what would this code even look like? Here is an example from Microsoft’s open source library.

// A Hello World! program in C#. 
using System;
namespace HelloWorld
{
    class Hello 
    {
        static void Main() 
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Hello World!");

            // Keep the console window open in debug mode.
            Console.WriteLine("Press any key to exit.");
            Console.ReadKey();
        }
    }
}

To me this is a total foreign language, but our programmers are phenomenal at what they do.  The team here at Dog Tag Development combined with the values and skills that veterans bring to the table, will prove to be an invaluable asset to the growing, demanding, and fast-paced Information Technology driven world we live in today.