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Beginning C++ Programming

You're reading from   Beginning C++ Programming Modern C++ at your fingertips!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787124943
Length 526 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Richard Grimes Richard Grimes
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Starting with C++ FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding Language Features 3. Exploring C++ Types 4. Working with Memory, Arrays, and Pointers 5. Using Functions 6. Classes 7. Introduction to Object-Orientated Programming 8. Using the Standard Library Containers 9. Using Strings 10. Diagnostics and Debugging

Using C++ language features

Let's now use the features you have learned in this chapter to write an application. This example is a simple command-line calculator; you type an expression such as 6 * 7, and the application parses the input and performs the calculation.

Start Visual C++ and click the File menu, and then New, and finally, click on the File... option to get the New File dialog. In the left-hand pane, click on Visual C++, and in the middle pane, click on C++ File (.cpp), and then click on the Open button. Before you do anything else, save this file. Using a Visual C++ console (a command line, which has the Visual C++ environment), navigate to the Beginning_C++ folder you created in the previous chapter and create a new folder called Chapter_02. Now, in Visual C++, on the File menu, click Save Source1.cpp As... and in the Save File As dialog locate the Chapter_02...

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