💻 C++ How To Program – Practice Repository

This repository contains my practice code from the book "C++ How To Program" (Deitel). It covers the foundations of C++ programming through step-by-step examples and exercises.

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📌 Topics Covered

📖 Chapter 1: Introduction to Computers and C++

• Evolution of C and C++
  • BCPL (Martin Richards, 1967)
  • B (Ken Thompson, 1970)
  • C (Dennis Ritchie, Bell Labs, 1972)
  • C++ (Bjarne Stroustrup, Bell Labs, 1979)
• Originally called "C with Classes" → renamed C++ in the 1980s
• Programs consist of classes and functions
• C++ systems consist of: program development environment, the language, and the C++ Standard Library

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📖 Chapter 2: Intro to C++ Programming; I/O and Operators

1. Welcome
   • Printing a line of text
   • Arithmetic operations: sum, difference, product, quotient, modulus
   • Comparing integers using if, relational and equality operators
   • Calculating sum, product, average, max, min of three integers
   • Even / Odd check
   • Checking if first integer is a multiple of second

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📖 Chapter 3: Intro to Classes, Objects and Strings

• Introduction to class and object concepts
• Basic string usage

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📖 Chapter 4: Control Statements – Part 1 (Assignment, ++, -- Operators)

1. GradeBook

   • Counter-controlled repetition
   • Sentinel-controlled repetition

2. ExamResult

   • Nested control statements

3. Increment

   • Pre-incrementing and post-incrementing

4. Power

   • Raise x to the y power

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📖 Chapter 5: Control Statements – Part 2 (Logical Operators)

1. ControlState

   • While loop (counter-controlled repetition)
   • For loop (counter-controlled repetition)
   • Summing even integers from 2 to 20
   • Do-while loop repetition

2. CompdInterest

   • Compound-interest calculations

3. SwitchState

   • Switch statement to count grades

4. BreakCont

   • break statement exiting a for loop
   • continue statement skipping iterations

5. LogicalOp

   • Truth table for &&, ||, !