2. A Tour of C++: The Basics

The first thing we do, let’s kill all the language lawyers.

– Henry VI, Part II

• Introduction

• The Basics

Hello, World!; Types, Variables, and Arithmetic; Constants; Tests and Loops; Pointers, Arrays, and Loops

• User-Defined Types

Structures; Classes; Enumerations

• Modularity

Separate Compilation; Namespaces; Error Handling

• Postscript

• Advice

2.1. Introduction

The aim of this chapter and the next three is to give you an idea of what C++ is, without going into a lot of details. This chapter informally presents the notation of C++, C++’s model of memory and computation, and the basic mechanisms for organizing code into a program. These are the language facilities supporting the styles most often seen in C and ...

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