C++ Introduction

What is Program?

A set of Instructions that performs a task.

What is Application?

A set of Programs to perform more than one task.

What is C++?

• A programming language, case sensitive, objects oriented and generic programming support.
• C++ is an object-oriented programming language. It is an extension to C programming.
• A programming language used to develop different types of applications.
  • Windows based application
  • Client-Server application
  • Device drivers
  • Embedded system applications

Object-Oriented Programming: C++ supports the object-oriented programming, the global features of OOP are

1. Encapsulation
2. Inheritance
3. Polymorphism
4. Abstraction

Library support: Standard C++ programming is divided into three important parts:

1. The core library includes the data types, variables and literals, etc.
2. The standard library includes the set of functions manipulating strings, files, etc.
3. The Standard Template Library (STL) includes the set of methods manipulating a data structure.