C++20 for Programmers: An Objects-Natural Approach, 3rd Edition

3. Control Statements: Part 1

Objectives

In this chapter, you’ll:

• Use the if and if…else selection statements to choose between alternative actions.

• Use the while iteration statement to execute statements in a program repeatedly.

• Use counter-controlled iteration and sentinel-controlled iteration.

• Use nested control statements.

• Use the compound assignment operators and the increment and decrement operators.

• Learn why fundamental data types are not portable.

• Continue our Objects Natural approach with a case study on creating and manipulating integers as large as you want them to be.

• Use C++20’s new text-formatting capabilities, which are more concise and more powerful than those in earlier C++ versions.

Outline

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Control ...