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Learning Outcomes:: What Is Cout Command For? How To Use Cout Command?

The document discusses the cout command in C++. It explains that cout is used for console output and displays text or variable values on the screen. It outputs data by using the output stream operator <<. Examples show how to display text and variables using cout. The endl command prints a new line, while "\n" can also be used to skip lines and format output. The document also introduces printf, which outputs with formatting characters. It includes an exercise to print a name and then a pattern of asterisks representing the first letter.

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Learning Outcomes:: What Is Cout Command For? How To Use Cout Command?

The document discusses the cout command in C++. It explains that cout is used for console output and displays text or variable values on the screen. It outputs data by using the output stream operator <<. Examples show how to display text and variables using cout. The endl command prints a new line, while "\n" can also be used to skip lines and format output. The document also introduces printf, which outputs with formatting characters. It includes an exercise to print a name and then a pattern of asterisks representing the first letter.

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Learning Outcomes:

•What is cout command for?


•How to use cout command?

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Console Output Command:
cout
 cout is a C++ command referred to as console output

 It is used to output or display text or values or data of variables on the 
computer screen

 It is used with output stream operator  <<.  Spaces before or after << does 
not matter.

 E.g. to display my name and age on the monitor screen, my C++ statements 
can be like so:
cout << “My name is Junita Mohamad Saleh.”;
cout << “I am “ << “15 years old.”;

The above C++ statements will output the following line:
My name is Junita Mohamad Saleh.I am 15 years old.
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Type this and observe the output
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
cout<<"Learn C++ without fear";
system("PAUSE");
return 0;
}

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endl or “\n” command
 Means “end‐of‐line”.  Used to skip a line.

 Used only with cout command to format displayed output as many 
times as needed.

 E.g.  Given C++ statements below:
cout << “My name is Junita Mohamad Saleh.” << endl ;
cout << “I am 15 years old.”;
cout << “\n Notice that one line and one space are skipped”;

 The above C++ statements will output the following line:
My name is Junita Mohamad Saleh.
I am 15 years old.
Notice that one line  and one space are skipped 

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Type this and observe the difference in 
output compared to the one before
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
cout<<"Learn C++ without fear\n";
system("PAUSE");
return 0;
}

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Another Console output command
printf
 Used with brackets
 Used with formatting character(s), e.g. “\n”, “\t”

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
printf ("Learn C++ without fear\n“);
system("PAUSE");
return 0;
}
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Exercise 1: Question
 Write a program that prints your full name on one line.  Then use 
asterisk (*) to make a display of the first alphabet of your name.  
Example display:
JUNITA MOHAMAD SALEH

*******
*
*
*
*    *
* *

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Exercise 1: Solution
// This program displays my name in capital letters and
// display the pattern of the first alphabet of my name.

#include <iostream.h>
Using namespace std;
void main()
{
cout<<“JUNITA MOHAMAD SALEH”<<endl;
cout<<“ ********”<<endl;
cout<<“ *”<<endl;
cout<<“ *”<< “\n”;
cout<<“ *”<<endl;
cout<<“ * *\n”;
cout<<“ * *”<<endl;
}
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