C++: A Dialog Programming with the C++ Standard Library

Review

We started out by discussing the tremendous reliability of computers. Whenever you hear “it's the computer's fault”, the overwhelming likelihood is that the software is to blame rather than the hardware. Then we took a look at the fact that although computers are calculating engines, many of the functions we use them for don't have much to do with numeric calculations; for example, the most common use of computers is probably Web browsing. Nevertheless, we started out our investigation of programming with numeric variables, which are easier to understand than non-numeric ones. To use variables, we need to write a C++ program, which consists primarily of a list of operations to be performed by the computer, along with directions that influence ...