Before you begin coding in C++ as a beginner or junior secondary student, it's important to understand how Visual Studio works.
This beginner C++ tutorial will guide you through setting up your development environment.
On Windows, Visual Studio now has a free version.
Go ahead and get it, and install the C/C++ platform tools.
If you are a beginner or junior secondary student, creating a new project on Visual Studio is simple:
On the Start Page of Visual Studio, click New Project.
Select Visual C++ under the Template header
and Win32 Console Application (for our purpose) under the .Net Framework header.
Give the project a name. >> OK >> Next >> Finish.
If you are a beginner or junior secondary student, creating a class file is straight-forward:
Click Project, Add Class.
Select C++ Class, Add;
Give the class a name and click Finish.
For the beginners or junior secondary students, you have to first make sure your C++ code contains no errors.
You may also want to see your C++ code's output before you get to building it.
To see your C++ code's output, set a breakpoint at the return statement in the main class:
Click on the left area of the "return 0" line to highlight it;
click Debug at the top of the window, Toggle breakpoint;
a red dot appears on the return 0 line.
Press F5, (click Yes) to see the project run to completion - assuming there are no errors.
A new shell is created that shows the result of your C++ code.
Alternatively, click Debug >> Start Without Debugging (Ctrl F5)
to see your C++ code output.
Note: In Windows, C/C++ codes can also be run in the NetBeans IDE using Cygwin or MinGW libraries.
Notice: Our C++ colour coding follows that of Microsoft's Visual Studio.
For a beginner-friendly C++ tutorials for kids and junior secondary students, summarised to only the key facts to help young learners
comprehend the C++ language and get started with utilising C++ for coding, check our
A beginner's Tutorial and Guide to the C++ Programming Language
from the Primary Category.
