CPE 197 – Computer Methods in Engineeing

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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CPE 112

•A declaration tells the computer what an identifier represents. (object, function, or type)

•In C++, you must declare every identifier before it is used.

•A memory location which can change is known by a variable name.

•VariableDeclaration

DataType Identifer , Identifier …;

•A memory location(s) whose value never changes is known by a constant name

•ConstantDeclaration

const DataType Identifier = LiteralValue;

Naming Elements: Declaration