Goals

• Understand how a C++ program is composed of one or more subprograms.
• read syntax templates in order to understand the formal rules of the governing C++ programs.
• create and recognize legal C++ identifiers.
• declare named constants and variables of type char and string.
• distinguish reserved words in C++ from user defined types.
• assign values to variables.
• construct simple string expressions made up of constants, variables, and the concatenation operator.
• construct a statement that writes to an output stream.
• determine what is printed by a given output statement.
• use comments to clarify your program
• construct simple C++ programs
• learn the steps involved in entering and running a program.