Objectives

• To understand that a C++ program is composed of 1 or more functions.
• To understand the concept of a data type.
• To learn the steps involved with entering, compiling and executing a program.
• Create and recognize legal C++ identifiers.
• Declare constants and variables of char and string type.
• Distinguish reserved words in C++ from user defined identifiers.
• Assign values to variables.
• Construct simple string expressions from constants, variables and string operations.
• Construct a statement that performs output.
• Determine what is printed by a given output statement.
• Use program documentation, both comments and self documenting code.
• Construct simple C++ programs.