2.1 Introduction
We now introduce C++ programming, which facilitates a disciplined approach to program development. Most of the C++ programs you’ll study in this book process data and display results. In this chapter, we present five examples that demonstrate how your programs can display messages and obtain data from the user for processing. The first three examples display messages on the screen. The next obtains two numbers from a user at the keyboard, calculates their sum and displays the result. The accompanying discussion shows you how to perform arithmetic calculations and save their results for later use. The fifth example demonstrates decision making by showing you how to compare two numbers, then display messages based on the comparison ...
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