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Anatomy of a C++ program

Anatomy of a C++ program - C++ Tutorial

From the course: C++ Essential Training

Anatomy of a C++ program

- [Instructor] A C++ Program is basically a collection of statements and expressions usually organized into functions and classes. In this lesson, I'll show you the general anatomy of a C++ Program. Please understand that this is not exhaustive, there are many other elements that may be involved in a C++ Program, this is just the basics and there's no need to pay too much attention to the detail, we'll go over each of these concepts in more detail throughout the course. For now, it's just important that you have a general overview of how these things work. Here is a simple Hello World in C++. You'll find this code in chapter two of your exercise files as hello.cpp, whitespace is any characters that are normally invisible, including new lines, spaces, and tabs. Whitespace is mostly ignored in C++, one notable exception is when a space is necessary to distinguish between two words or tokens. For example, the space between…

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