Computer Programming and Fundamentals

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C Programming Language was developed in early

1970s by

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Dennis Ritchie

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C++ was based on

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C programming language

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Developed in early 1980s by

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Bjarne Stroustrup

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is a Danish
computer scientist.

He is currently Professor and holder of the College of
Engineering Chair in Computer Science at Texas A&M
University.

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Bjarne Stroustrup (Be-ar-neh or By-ar-ne Strov-stroop)

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the file that contains the program you

prepared in the editor after you save it. (.cpp)

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Source file

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header files such as iostream.h

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Header file

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performs preliminary operations on

files before they are passed to the compiler.

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Pre-processor

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translates the source code to machine

language.

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Compiler

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Anatomy of C++

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Include Directives

Header Files

Function main

Body

Statement

Return statement

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are the reserved words in any language
which have a special pre-defined meaning and cannot
be used for any other purpose.

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Keywords

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C++ Data Types

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Integer Values

Floating Point Numbers

Text Data Type

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Refers to the logic of a program and a step-by-step description of
how to arrive at the solution of a given problem

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ALGORITHM

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is a pictorial representation of an algorithm

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Flowchart

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FLOWCHART BASIC

SYMBOLS

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Terminal

Input/Output

Processing

Decision

Flow lines

Connectors

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includes all the possible
characters that can be utilized in a
programming language. A character set
denotes any alphabet, digit or symbols to
represent information.

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character set

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in
programming languages is a set of values and the
operations on those values.

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A data type (or datatype)

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is a type of data

that holds whole numbers

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Integer

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number comes from the fact that there is no
fixed number of digits before and after the
decimal point; that is, the decimal point can
float.

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Floating-point

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usually is 1 byte, and can
represent any single character, including a letter, a
digit, a punctuation mark, or a space. The second text
data type is string.

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Character

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data type may store a
sequence of characters, including this sentence, or
paragraph, or page.

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String.

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are location in your computer’s memory in
which you can store a value and from which you can later
retrieve that value.

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Variables

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is a quantity or value that does not

change.

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Constant

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is a symbol that is used to perform
mathematical or logical manipulations. C++ language is
rich with built-in operators.

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C++ operator

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C++ OPERATORS

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Arithmetic Operators
Relational Operators
Assignment Operators
Increment And Decrement Operators
Bitwise Operators
Logical Operators

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+

Addition

-

Subtraction

*

Multiplication

/

Division

%

Modulus

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ARITHMETIC OPERATORS

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==

Is equal to

!=

Is not equal to

>

Greater than

<

Less than

> =

Greater than or equal to

<=

Less than or equal to

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RELATIONAL OPERATORS

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++

Increment

–

Decrement

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Increment and Decrement

OPERATORS

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&&

And operator. Performs a logical conjunction of two
expressions.

(if both expressions evaluate to True, result is True. If either
expression evaluates to False, result is False)

||

Or operator. Performs a logical disjunction on two
expressions.

(if either or both expressions evaluate to True, result is
True)

!

Not operator. Performs logical negation on an expression.

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LOGICAL OPERATORS