Brief summary
- A C/C++ program begins with include statements of header files (libraries,intrinsic functions etc)
- Functions which are used are normally defined at top (details next week)
- The main program is set up as an integer, it returns 0 (everything correct) or 1 (something went wrong)
- Standard
if
, while
and for
statements as in Java, Fortran, Python...
- Integers have a very limited range.