A Laboratory Course in C++, 5th Edition

Prelab Activities

Review

There are two basic parts to a C++ program: (1) instructions to the C++ preprocessor

and compiler and (2) instructions that describe the processing to be done. However,

before we can describe these instructions, we must have a way of naming things so

that we can tell the compiler about them and describe what we want to have done to

them. We name things (data types, data objects, and actions) by giving them an

identifier. An identifier is made up of letters, numbers, and underscores, but must

begin with a letter or an underscore. We use the terms identifier and name

interchangeably.

Beware: C++ is case sensitive. This means that ...