The simplest C++ program is shown here:
#include <iostream> // The entry point of the program int main() { std::cout << "Hello, world!n"; }
The first point to make is that the line starting with // is a comment. All the text until the end of the line is ignored by the compiler. If you want to have multiline comments, every line must start with //. You can also use C comments. A C comment starts with /* and ends with */ and everything between these two symbols is a comment, including line breaks.
C comments are a quick way to comment out a portion of your code.
The braces, {}, indicates a code block; in this case, the C++ code is for the function main. We know that this is a function because of the basic format: first, ...
