Console.WriteLine()

To display text on the screen (the "console") in C#, you use the command Console.WriteLine(). It outputs whatever text you pass to it in parentheses and double quotation marks.

using System;

class Program
{
    static void Main()
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Hello, World!");
    }
}

The word "Line" in WriteLine tells you exactly what happens after the output: the cursor automatically moves down to a new line. So the next piece of output begins below it, not right after it.

Console.WriteLine("First line");
Console.WriteLine("Second line");

// Output:
// First line
// Second line

Console.WriteLine() outputs text and then automatically moves to a new ____.

Console is a class that lives in the System namespace, which is why your file starts with "using System;" — that line tells the compiler where to find Console. WriteLine is the name of the method you are calling on it. The text in parentheses and double quotes is a "string" — exactly what gets printed to the screen.

System.Console.WriteLine("I am learning C#.");
Console.WriteLine("This is fun!");

// Output:
// I am learning C#.
// This is fun!

What happens right after Console.WriteLine("Hi"); outputs its text?

Important: the text you want WriteLine() to output must sit inside double quotation marks, for example "Hello". Without them, the compiler would try to interpret the text as program code — like a variable or keyword — rather than as plain text, and your program would fail to compile.

Console.WriteLine() outputs text without any line break, exactly like Console.Write().