The C++ Workshop

2. Control Flow

Overview

This chapter presents various tools and techniques that are used to control the flow of execution throughout applications. This includes, but is not limited to: if statements, switch statements, and various loops. We will also look at how we control the lifetime of our applications using these techniques, and how they are to be used efficiently. The chapter will end with the creation of a number guessing that that will implement various loops and conditional statements.

Introduction

In the first chapter, we covered the absolute essentials of C++ and looked at the key components of a C++ application. We looked at how applications run, how they're built, and how we can get information in and out of them with some ...