Chapter 3
Creating Your First C++ Application
IN THIS CHAPTER
Organizing your applications into projects
Typing code into the code editor
Writing an application that writes to the screen
Doing basic math
Running your application
It’s your lucky day. You have decided to learn one of the most popular programming languages on the planet. (C++ is the fourth most popular language according to the TIOBE Index at the time of this writing, at https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/.) From the biggest skyscrapers housing huge Fortune 500 companies all the way down to the garages with the self-starting kids grinding out the next generation of software, people are using C++. Yes, there are other languages, but more programmers use C++ than any other language for desktop application, game, animation, media access, compiler, and operating system development. In this chapter, you start right out writing a C++ application.
As mentioned in Chapter 1, this book relies on your use of Code::Blocks as the ...
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