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CHAPTER 1
Introduction to computer programming
(Input, Output, Operators, and Expressions)

Computer Science Department

Jordan University of Science and Technology
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1.7 CONNECTING WITH THE

REAL WORLD: INPUT AND
OUTPUT
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1.7 Input and output

• When data moves in the direction of the human (user) to
the computer program, it’s called the input
• cin stream, used with the >> operator to insert data.
• The >> operator itself is sometimes referred to as an extraction
operator.

• The data transferred from the computer to the human, is

called the output.
• cout stream, used with the << operator to output data.
• The << operator itself is sometimes referred to as an insertion
operator.
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1.7 output
• To print the value of an integer variable we need to send it
to cout stream through << operator
• Both the << operator and cout stream are responsible for
printing
• You can connect more than one << operator in
one cout statement and each of the printed elements
may be of a different type and a different nature
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1.7 output
• To break the line being sent to the screen using two ways:
• First, we can use one of the control characters called “newline” and
coded as \n (note: we use two characters to write it down but the
compiler sees it as one character).
• The newline character forces the console to complete the current line
and to start a new one.
• Second, using a manipulator called endl (as “end line”). Using endl
We can achieve exactly the same effect as \n.
• Example:

• This snippet causes the console to display the following three lines of
text:
1
2
3
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1.7 Input
• C++ program allow getting information from the user,
transfer it to the program, and then use it for calculations.

• C++ use cin stream with the operator >>, referred to as an

extraction operator.

• The cin stream, along with the extraction operator, is

responsible for:
• transferring the human-readable form of the data from the input
device e.g. a console.
• converting the data into the internal (machine) representation of the
value being input.
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1.7 Input
• Using cin stream with the operator >>; C++ language
program get data from a human and store it in variables.
• C++ program can ask the user to enter a value from the
keyboard and the program stores it in a specified variable
• For example: cin>>MaxPrice;

• A difference between cout and cin streams is that the

argument for cout may not be a variable. It can also be an
expression or constants.
• For example: cout << 2 * i;
• But using an input stream, we need to explicitly specify the
variable that can store the data entered by the user.
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1.7 Input
• Example:
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1.4 Operators
• An operator is a symbol of the programming language,
which is able to operate on the values
• For example, an assignment operator is (=)
• Used to assign values to variables X= 4
• Other operators available in C++ language associated
with widely recognizable arithmetic operations.
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1.4 Multiplication ( * )
• An asterisk * is a multiplication operator.
• For example:

• k will be set to the value of 120, while the z variable will be set to
0.625.
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1.4 Division ( / )
• A slash / is a divisional operator. The value in front of the
slash is a dividend, while the value behind the slash is
a divisor.
• For example:

• k will be set to 2, z to 0.5.

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1.4 Division by zero

• This will result with a compilation error, runtime error or
some message at runtime. As a general rule, you
shouldn't divide by zero.
• For example:

• And the code:

• when you try to execute that code, the result of the operation is not
a number. It’s a special featured value named inf (as in infinitive).
Generally, this kind of illegal operation is a so-called exception.
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1.4 Addition ( + )
• The addition operator is the + (plus) sign.
• For example:

• k is equal to 102 and z to 1.02..

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1.4 Subtraction( - )
• The subtraction operator is the – (minus) sign.
• this operator has another meaning – it can change the sign of a
number.
• For example:

• k will be equal to -100, while z will be equal to 0.0.

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1.4 Unary minus ( - )

• In “subtracting” applications, the minus operator expects two
arguments: the left (a minuend in arithmetical terms) and right
(a subtrahend).
• For this reason, the subtraction operator is considered to be one of the binary
operators, just like the addition, multiplication and division operators.

• The minus operator used as the unary operator, as it expects only

one argument - the right one.
• For example:

• The variable j will be assigned the value of 100.

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1.4 Unary plus (+)

• Its role is to preserve the sign. Take a look at the snippet
• Although such a construction is syntactically correct, using it
doesn’t make much sense and it would be hard to find a good
rationale for doing it.
• For example:

• The variable j will be assigned the value of 100.

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1.4 Remainder ( % )
• Its representation in the C++ language is the % (percent)
character.
• It’s a binary operator (it performs the modulo operation) and
both arguments cannot be floats.
• For example:

• The k variable is 3 (because 2 * 5 + 3 = 13).

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1.4 Priorities
• The hierarchy of priorities is the phenomenon that causes some
operators to act before others is known as the priority.

• The C++ language precisely defines the priorities of all operators and
assumes that operators of larger (higher) priority perform their
operations before the operators with lower priority.
• For example:

• The result will be 17.

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1.4 Bindings
• The binding of the operator determines the order of computations
performed by some operators with equal priority, put side by side in
one expression.
• Most operators in the C++ language have the left-sided binding,
which means that the calculation of this sample expression is
conducted from left to right.
• For example:

• 3 will be added to 2, and 5 will be added to the result.

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1.4 List of priorities

• Priorities from the highest to the lowest priority.
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1.4 List of priorities

• Quiz

• Result is:
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1.4 Parentheses
• Parentheses can change the natural order of calculation. Sub
expressions in parentheses are always calculated first.
• You can use as many parentheses as you need and we often
use them to improve the readability
• For example:

• I will take 10.

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Expressions
• If all operands are integers
• Expression is called an integral expression
• Yields an integral result
• Example: 2 + 3 * 5

• If all operands are floating-point

• Expression is called a floating-point expression
• Yields a floating-point result
• Example: 12.8 * 17.5 - 34.50

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Mixed Expressions
• Mixed expression:
• Has operands of different data types
• Contains integers and floating-point
• Examples of mixed expressions:
2 + 3.5
6 / 4 + 3.9
5.4 * 2 – 13.6 + 18 / 2

• If operator has both types of operands

• Integer is changed to floating-point

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Type Conversion
Cast operator: provides explicit type conversion
static_cast<dataTypeName>(expression)

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Implicit conversion
• cout is able to recognize the actual type of its element even
when it is an effect of a conversion.

• A conversion can be done using the syntax: (newtype)expr

• Changes the type of the expr expression into the newtype type.

• We can see the ASCII code of any character stored within

a char variable and vice versa, or see a character whose ASCII
code is placed inside an int variable.
• For example:

• This snippet outputs the following text to the screen: X 88 88 X

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1.4 Increment Operator ( ++ )

• Used to increment a variable by one.
• This is often done when we’re counting something .
• For example:
int Counter;
Counter = 0;
Counter = Counter + 1;
• We achieve the same effect in a shorter way:
Counter++;
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1.4 Decrement Operator ( -- )

• Used to decrease the value of a chosen variable by one.
• This is often done when we’re counting something .
• For example:
int Counter;
Counter = 10;
Counter = Counter - 1;
• We achieve the same effect in a shorter way:
Counter--;
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1.4 Increment and Decrement Operators

• Both operators can be used as postfix and prefix operators
with the same effect to increment or decrement a given
variable by 1 called Pre/post increment/decrement
operators.
• For example:
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1.4 Increment and Decrement Operators

• There is a fairly significant difference between prefix and
postfix.
• Operation: Variable++ Variable--
• Effect: Use the original (unchanged) variable's value and
then increment/decrement the variable by 1.
• For example:

• The variable i is set to 1. In the second statement : the value of i will

be taken (as we use the post-increment operator), then the
variable i will be increased by 1.
• In effect, j will receive the value of 1, and i will receive the value of 2.
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1.4 Increment and Decrement Operators

• There is a fairly significant difference between prefix and
postfix.
• Operation: ++Variable --Variable
• Effect: Increment/decrement the variable by 1 and use its
value already increased/reduced.
• For example:

• The variable i is assigned the value of 1; next, the I variable is

incremented and becomes 2; next, the increased value is assigned
to the j variable.
• In effect both i and j will be equal to 2.
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1.4 Increment and Decrement Operators

• Example:

• The program execution step by step:

1. The i variable is assigned the value of 4;
2. We take the original value of i (4), multiply it by 2, assign the
result (8) to j and eventually (post-)increment the i variable (it’s
now equal to 5).
3. We (pre-)decrement the value of j (it's now equal to 7), this
reduced value is taken and multiplied by 2, and the result (14) is
assigned to the variable i.
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1.4 Pre- and post- operators (priorities)

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1.4 Shortcut operators

• In the C++ language there is a short way to write the
operators.
• If op is a two-argument operator and the operator is used
in the following context:
variable = variable op expression;
It can be simplified and shown as follows:
variable op = expression;
• For example:
i=i*2;  i *= 2 ;
counter = counter + 10;  counter +=10;
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1.4 Shortcut operators

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Character and Literals

• char is a type
• literal is a symbol that uniquely identifies its value
• Examples:
• char Character = ‘A’
• char A = 100
• Character: this is not a literal; it’s a variable name
• 'A‘ : this is a literal; when you look at it you immediately know its value
• 100 : it's a literal, too (of type int)
• 100.0 : it's another literal, this time of the float type
• i + 100 : this is a combination of a variable and a literal joined together
with the + operator; such a structure is called an expression.
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1.5 Character literals

• The C++ language uses a special character backslash( \)
• it named as escape character because by using the \ we
escape from the normal meaning of the character that
follows the slash

• You can also use the escape character to escape from

the escape character.
• For example:
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1.5 Escape characters

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1.5 Escape characters

• The C++ language use escape character to denote literals
representing white spaces.
• \n : denotes a transition to a new line and is sometimes called
an LF (Line Feed).
• \r : denotes a return to the beginning of the line and is
sometimes called a CR (Carriage).
• \a : as in alarm if you send this character to the screen, you’ll hear
a short beep.
• \0 : called null (none) is a character that does not represent any
character.