Goals for Chapter 2

• Understand how a C++ program is composed of one or more subprograms.
• Read syntax templates in order to understand the formal rules governing C++.
• Create and recognise legal C++ identifiers.
• Declare named constants and variables of type char and string.
• Distinguish reserved words in C++ from user defined identifiers.
• 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 whtat is printed by a given output statement.
• Use comments to document code.
• Construct simple C++ programs.
• State the steps involved in entering and running a program.