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The C++ Workshop

By : Dale Green, Kurt Guntheroth, Shaun Ross Mitchell
Book Image

The C++ Workshop

By: Dale Green, Kurt Guntheroth, Shaun Ross Mitchell

Overview of this book

C++ is the backbone of many games, GUI-based applications, and operating systems. Learning C++ effectively is more than a matter of simply reading through theory, as the real challenge is understanding the fundamentals in depth and being able to use them in the real world. If you're looking to learn C++ programming efficiently, this Workshop is a comprehensive guide that covers all the core features of C++ and how to apply them. It will help you take the next big step toward writing efficient, reliable C++ programs. The C++ Workshop begins by explaining the basic structure of a C++ application, showing you how to write and run your first program to understand data types, operators, variables and the flow of control structures. You'll also see how to make smarter decisions when it comes to using storage space by declaring dynamic variables during program runtime. Moving ahead, you'll use object-oriented programming (OOP) techniques such as inheritance, polymorphism, and class hierarchies to make your code structure organized and efficient. Finally, you'll use the C++ standard library?s built-in functions and templates to speed up different programming tasks. By the end of this C++ book, you will have the knowledge and skills to confidently tackle your own ambitious projects and advance your career as a C++ developer.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Assignment Operators

Assignment operators allow us to assign values to our objects. We've used this operator many times throughout our chapters so far—it's one of the most fundamental operations in programming, but as always, there's more that we can learn about these operators.

The most basic assignment operator is where we take a value and assign it to an object, as follows:

    int myInt = 5;

We're familiar with this, but what we might not be familiar with is the concept of combining these with arithmetic operators. Let's imagine a scenario where we need to increment a value by 5. We could do this as follows:

    myInt = myInt + 5;

We take the value of myInt, add 5 to it, and then assign it back to the original variable. We can do this in a more refined way, however, by combining the two operators together. The assignment operator can be preceded by an arithmetic operator to achieve...