CS 10 SI Classroom Session 2 - Example 1

input1.txt

Twix
Fido
John
Smith
47

input2.txt

Skittles
Hammy
Daniel
de Haas
20

input3.txt

Starburst Starla Sarah Fredrickson 82

main.cpp

// Including iostream for access to cout, cin, and string
#include <iostream>

// Clarifying which namespace to get cout, cin, and string from.
using namespace std;

int main() {
  // Variables are uninitialized because we will get initial input from user.
  string faveCandy;
  string firstPet;
  string firstName;
  string lastName;
  int age;

  // Question: what are the values of the above variables?
  
  // User prompts for initializing variables
  // Notice how they are in blocks that make them logically distinguishable.
  cout << "Enter your favorite candy: ";
  cin >> faveCandy;
  
  cout << "Enter the name of your first pet: ";
  cin >> firstPet;

  cout << "Enter your first and last name: ";
  // Similar to cout, cin can be chained together to read in multiple inputs
  // at once.
  cin >> firstName >> lastName;

  cout << "Enter your age: ";
  cin >> age;

  // Display entered information to user in interesting way.
  cout << endl;
  cout << "Your name is " << firstName << " " << lastName
       << " and your first pet's name was " << firstPet
       << " and your favorite candy is " << faveCandy << " and you are "
       << age << " years old." << endl;
  
  /* We return 0 here to say the program ran successfully, but can you come up
     with a set of input that wouldn't mean the program was successful?
     (HINT:) Mr. Miller spent a fair amount of time on this idea in class. */
  return 0;
}