Learning to Program in C++

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 for which we use them don't have much to do with numeric calculations; for example, the most common use of computers is probably word processing. 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 ...