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Common Programming Concepts

Throughout this chapter we will cover some of the most common concepts that appear in many different programming languages and how they work in C++. None of these concepts are unique to C++ but they may work slightly different to how you are used to.

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Keywords are words reserved for use by the language meaning they cannot be used as identifier names for variables or functions. See Appendix A for full list of keywords.