Revised: January 27, 2007
By Richard G. Baldwin
File: Pf00107.htm
Practice Text
This lesson was written specifically for the benefit of my students in COSC 1315, Fundamentals of Programming. The lesson was written under the assumption that those students have no prior programming knowledge when they enroll in the course.
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A simple C++ program
This is a very simple C++ program that illustrates the sequence structure. The main function for this program contains a simple sequence of four statements, each of which displays one line of text on the screen.
In computer programming, we often group the following three terms together:
However, the program that I will explain in this lesson does not include a selection (decision) structure. It also does not include a loop (iteration) structure.
(I will explain selection and loop structures in a future lesson.)
The output
The program displays the following four lines of text on the screen:
Hello Viet Nam Hello Iraq Hello America Hello World
You learned about all of the programming elements contained in the following program in Lesson 105. Therefore, the only thing that is new about this program is the sequential organizational structure. That organizational structure is almost trivial, consisting simply of a sequence of four statements that cause four lines of text to be displayed on the computer screen.
/*File: Sequence01.cpp
This is a very simple C++ program. It
illustrates the sequence structure. It does not
include a decision/selection structure. It
also does not include a loop/iteration
structure.
This program displays the following text on the
screen:
Hello Viet Nam
Hello Iraq
Hello America
Hello World
************************************************/
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main(){//Global main function.
//This main function executes a sequence of
// statements and then terminates. The
// statements in the sequence do not
// include decisions or loops.
cout << "Hello Viet Nam\n";
cout << "Hello Iraq\n";
cout << "Hello America\n";
cout << "Hello World\n";
return 0;
}//end main function
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