Introduction to C++

   As you have learnt ,a program serves the purpose of commanding the computer,and the computer is obedient servant.Computer is always ready to execute the job that is instructed to it by its user.But the essential thing is that the instructions constituting the program should in a form understandable to the system.Fortunately the developments in the software evolution,led to English like languages,called high level languages,to express the tasks contained in the instructions.C++ (pronounced as C plus plus) is such a high level language that was developed at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the early 1980s by Bjarne Strouustrup .This language is considered as the successor of C language and includes some of the features of Bjarne's favourite language Simula 67.

          The efficiency and usefulness of a program not only depends upon competitive and versatile skills of the programmer but also the strength of the programming language and the approach it provides to write programs.There are different types of methodologies or approaches to write programs.The most adopted and popular approach is structured programming approach that focusses on the procedure to be performed to obtain the solution.This methodology does not consider the data to be processed by the program.And also this approach failed to show the desired result in terms of error-free,easy-to-maintain and reusable programs.This paved the way to a new programming style named Object Oriented programming (OOP),which aims at clearer,more reliable,more easily maintained programs.But before using OOP methodology a beginner in programming is better familiarize with the structured programming style.Now let us learn the C++ language to convert the algorithms into computer programs.