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Console Output

The console output statement in the C++ is used to display a message or an output on the screen. In the program the statement used to display the message "
$\begin{emph} This is my first C++ program\end{emph}$
was :

cout << "This is my first C++ program";

The << is the standard C++ output operator. This operator causes whatever expression is on its right side to be output to the device specified on its left side. "
$\begin{emph} cout\end{emph}$
specifies the console as the device to display the output on.

Notice this statement ends with a semicolon. In fact all C++ statements end with a semicolon. The message
$\begin{emph} ''This is my first C++ program''\end{emph}$
is a string. In C++ a string is a sequence of characters enclosed between double quotes.

Yousef Haik
2/23/1998