Author: Alex

Consider the case where we want to show the user a menu and ask them to make a selection — and if the user chooses an invalid selection, to ask them again. Clearly the menu and selection should go inside a loop of some kind (so we can keep asking …

And now the real fun begins — in the next set of lessons, we’ll cover loops. Loops are control flow constructs that allow a piece of code to execute repeatedly until some condition is met. Loops add a significant amount of flexibility into your programming toolkit, allowing you to do …

The next kind of control flow statement we’ll cover is the unconditional jump. An unconditional jump causes execution to jump to another spot in the code. The term “unconditional” means the jump always happens (unlike an if statement or switch statement, where the jump only happens conditionally based on the …

Although it is possible to chain many if-else statements together, this is both difficult to read and inefficient. Consider the following program: #include <iostream> void printDigitName(int x) { if (x == 1) std::cout << “One”; else if (x == 2) std::cout << “Two”; else if (x == 3) std::cout << …

The first category of control flow statements we’ll talk about is conditional statements. A is a statement that specifies whether some associated statement(s) should be executed or not. C++ supports two basic kinds of conditionals: if statements (which we introduced in lesson , and will talk about further here) and …

When a program is run, the CPU begins execution at the top of main(), executes some number of statements (in sequential order by default), and then the program terminates at the end of main(). The specific sequence of statements that the CPU executes is called the program’s (or , for …

There are many instances in programming where we need more than one variable in order to represent something of interest. As we discussed in the introduction to the previous chapter (), a fraction has a numerator and denominator that are linked together into a single mathematical object. Alternatively, lets say …

Type aliases In C++, is a keyword that creates an alias for an existing data type. To create such a type alias, we use the using keyword, followed by a name for the type alias, followed by an equals sign and an existing data type. For example: using Distance = …