I'm struggling with the if/else objective question. If I could get a step by step to help me better understand please?

Hi Michael,

Your if block looks good. Now Let's look at how to construct the second part of the question/instructions: the "else" block.

The "else" block is a default -- it is what the computer will run as long as the "if" block's condition is false. (Remember - the condition is what is in () after your "if".

So, if the language that is entered by the user is not C#, the "if" block you have written will evaluate to false. What happens when a condition inside of an if block is false? Then the computer does not run the code inside it, and it skips to the next block, in our case it's going to be the "else" block.

Constructing an else block is a little different. Because it is the default, it does not need a 'condition' in parentheses, so you just write it like this:

else {
    System.Console.WriteLine(language + " is not C#.");
}

Altogether it looks like this:

string language = Console.ReadLine();

if(language == "C#")
{
    System.Console.WriteLine("C# Rocks!");
}
else 
{ 
    System.Console.WriteLine(language + " is not C#.");
}

//So here if the user typed in "Cheese", the computer would check to see if cheese is equal to C#. Since it is not, it would go to the default which is the else block and print "Cheese is not C#."

Hope that helps!