Basic of C++ : )
First Hello World Program : )
• // C++ program to display "Hello World"
• // Header file for input output functions
• #include <iostream>
• using namespace std;
• // Main() function: where the execution of
• // program begins
• int main()
• {
• // Prints hello world
• cout << "Hello World";
• return 0;
• }
1. #include
• This is a preprocessor directive. The #include directive
tells the compiler to include the content of a file in the
source code.
• For example, #include<iostream> tells the compiler
to include the standard iostream file which contains
declarations of all the standard input/output library
functions.
2. using namespace std;
• This is used to import the entity of the std namespace
into the current namespace of the program.
• The std namespace is huge. The alternative to this
statement is to specify the namespace to which the
identifier belongs using the scope operator(::) each time
we declare a type. For example, std::cout.
3. int main() { }
• The main() function is the entry point of every C++
program, no matter where the function is located in the
program.
• The opening braces ‘{‘ indicates the beginning of the
main function and the closing braces ‘}’ indicates the
ending of the main function.
4. cout<<“Hello World”;
• std::cout is an instance of the std::ostream class, that is
used to display output on the screen.
• Everything followed by the character << in double
quotes ” ” is displayed on the output device.
• The semi-colon character at the end of the statement is
used to indicate that the statement is ending there.
5. return 0;
• This statement is used to return a value from a function
and indicates the finishing of a function.
