1. technology and computing
2. programming languages
3. c and c++

Programming Fundamental
Instructor Name:
Lecture-2
Today’s Lecture
 What is Programming?
 First C++ Program
 Programming Errors
 Variables in C++
 Primitive Data Types in C++
 Operators in C++
 Operators Precedence
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What is Programming?
 Computer programming (often shortened to programming) is a process that
leads from an original formulation of a computing problem to executable
computer programs.
 Programming involves activities:
 Analysis
 Develop understanding
 Generating algorithms
 Verification of requirements of algorithms including their correctness and
resources consumption, and
 Implementation of algorithms in a target programming language (C++ in
our case)
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First Program in C++
using namespace std;
#include <conio.h>
#include <iostream>
main()
{
cout<<" Welcome to GC University";
getch();
}
→# is HASH and also called SHARP
→#include: This is a pre-processor directive. It is not part of our program; it is
an instruction to the compiler. It tells the C compiler to include the
contents of a file i.e. iostream. The compiler knows that it is a
system file, and therefore looks for it in a special place.
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Namespace in C++
 Different libraries may have functions or variables with same name
 A namespace is designed to overcome this difficulty by using additional
information to differentiate similar functions, classes, variables etc. with
the same name available in different libraries.
 Using namespace, you can define the context in which names are defined.
 In essence, a namespace defines a scope.
 A namespace definition begins with the keyword namespace followed by
the namespace name as follows:
namespace namespace_name;
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The Using Directive
 To call the namespace-enabled version of either function or variable,
prepend the namespace name as follows:
name_space::code;
 You can also avoid prepending of namespaces with the using namespace
directive which tells the compiler that the subsequent code is making use
of names in the specified namespace
 The using directive can also be used to refer to a particular item within a
namespace. For example,
using std::cout;
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#include directive
 Both user and system header files are included using the preprocessing
directive ‘#include’.
 It has two variants:
 #include <file> - used for system header files. It searches for a file
named file in a standard list of system directories.
 #include "file“ - used for header files of your own program. It
searches for a file named file first in the directory containing the
current file, then in the quote directories and then the same directories
used for <file>.
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main() Function
 All C++ Must have main() function
 When the operating system runs a program in C, it passes control of the
computer over to that program.
 The main() function uses its parentheses() to contain any information
typed after the program name at the command prompt. This is useful for
more advanced programming.
 The curly braces {} are used for organization. They contain programming
instructions that belong to the function. Those programming instructions
are how the function carries out its task or does its thing.
 Without main() function a C++ program will not execute.
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cout in C++
 The predefined object cout is an instance of ostream class.
 The cout object is said to be "connected to" the standard output device,
which usually is the display screen.
 The cout is used in conjunction with the stream insertion operator, which
is written as << which are two less than signs indicates the direction of
data
cout<<" Welcome to GC University";
 Thing between the double quotes (“ ”) is known as character string, will
display it on the screen.
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Semicolon “;” in C++
 The semicolon is part of the syntax of C++.
 It tells the compiler that you're at the end of a command.
 The semicolon (;) will be used at the end of the every statement other wise
compiler will report an error.
 The error reported as result of missing semicolon(;) is referred as syntax
error
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Programming Errors
Three Types of Errors
1) Syntax Error
Detected By the Compiler
2) Logical Error
Produce incorrect result due to wrong logic
3) Runtime Error
Causes the program to abort
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Variables in C++
What is Variable?
 A variable is used to store a piece of data for processing.
 It is called variable because you can change the stored value with new
value during program execution
 A variable is a named storage location, that stores a value of a particular
data type
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Variables in C++
Variable
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Variables in C++
Dissecting a Variable
 In a Program a variable Consists of:
 Name: Used as identifier for the variable. e.g. radius, area, age
 Type: Represents the type of data a variable will hold. e.g. Integer,
Float
 Size: Represents memory size a variable require to store a value. It
depends on the type of variable and compiler that compiles the code.
 Value: Actual value that is stored in variable
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Variables in C++
Variable Declaration Rule
 A variable must start with:
 Character
 Underscore _ (Not recommended)
 A variable must [recommended]
 Consists of sequence of Upper/lower case Characters, numbers (0-9), _
up to certain length
 have a name that is self-descriptive and closely reflects the meaning of
the variable e.g. age, user_name, email, address,ph_no
 not be of single character and meaning less unless they are common
names like x ,and z for coordinators
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Variables in C++
Variable Declaration Rule
 It is perfectly okay to use long names of says 30 characters to make sure
that the name accurately reflects its meaning!
 Use singular and plural nouns prudently to differentiate between singular
and plural variables. For example, you may use the variable row to refer to
a single row number and the variable rows to refer to many rows.
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Variables in C++
Variable Declaration Rule
Prohibition:
 White space (blank, tab, new-line) and other special characters (such as +, , *, /, @, &, commas, etc.) are not allowed.
 It cannot begin with a digit.
 An identifier cannot be a reserved keyword or a reserved literal (e.g. int,
double, if, else, for, main,while,break).
 Identifiers are case-sensitive. E.g. A rose is NOT a Rose, and is NOT
a ROSE.
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Variable Data Types
Data Types
 While doing programming in any programming language, you need to use
various variables to store various information.
 Variables are nothing but reserved memory locations to store values, this
means variable reserve some space in memory.
 Information store in variables may be of various data types like character,
wide character, integer, floating point, double floating point, boolean etc.
 Based on the data type of a variable, the operating system allocates
memory and decides what can be stored in the reserved memory.
 A data type is set of values and operations performed on those value
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Variable Data Types
Primitive Data Types

Integers: used to store numerical values(signed or unsigned).
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Characters: used to store Characters ‘A’ to ‘z’. Every alphanumeric digit
and or symbol encoded in single quotes in considered a character.

Floating-point: used store the decimal point numbers.

Boolean: A special type called bool , which takes a value of
either true or false.
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