C++ For Dummies
Chapter One
Writing Your First C++ Program
In This Chapter
* Finding out about C++
* Installing Dev-CPP from the accompanying CD-ROM
* Creating your first C++ program
* Executing your program
Okay, so here we are: No one here but just you and me. Nothing left to do
but get started. Might as well lay out a few fundamental concepts.
A computer is an amazingly fast but incredibly stupid machine. A computer
can do anything you tell it (within reason), but it does exactly what it's told - nothing
more and nothing less.
Perhaps unfortunately for us, computers don't understand any reasonable
human language - they don't speak English either. Okay, I know what you're
going to say: "I've seen computers that could understand English." What you
really saw was a computer executing a program that could meaningfully understand
English. (I'm still a little unclear on this computer-understanding-language
concept, but then I don't know that my son understands my advice, either, so
I'll let it slide.)
Computers understand a language variously known as computer language or
machine language. It's possible but extremely difficul ... read full excerpt from C++ For Dummies ebook
