C++ Keyboard

[suagbor]

Im having trouble with this problem.

I have to write a C++ program that reads in 10 numbers from the keyboard and then add them together. Then, finally prints its total.

Can someone help? Where do I begin from?

[Corpus]

Well...you read the numbers one by one into an array of numbers, then traverse the array to sum it up, then print the sum.

[trostemd]

Try prompting the user for each of the ten numbers. Store each of them in their own variable. Then finally, add them all up and print the sum.

[maikel]

suagbor: please tell us what you are allowed to use? Do you know arrays and loops?

I would recommend you to look into some beginner tutorials, where they explain how a program is structed. I will tell you only what roughly need to know:

A executable program always needs a 'main function' in C++. So these 4 lines are already valid code and compilable sourcecode.

int main()
{
    return 0;
}

Now lets think what you need for input. To print something out or read in you certainly need some 'objects' like cin and cout (pronounced: see-in, see-out) Here i a little sample code you can type into your IDE or your most trustworthy texteditor. I hope you know how to compile programs.

#include <iostream> // here we get our objects cin and cout from. this makes them available
using namepsace std; // some technical reason to write this here, dont bother with this

int main()
{
    int a;

    cout << "Hey i write something to console.\nType some integer:";
    cin >> a;
    cout << "Wow! " << a << " is a really great number!\n";
    return 0;
}

Questions?

Yours Maikel

[chrisname]

@trostemd,
It would be better to use an array as Corpus suggested.

[Duthomhas]

http://www.cplusplus.com/forum/general/20774/

[tummychow]

Don't double post. Your question should be posted exactly once across this entire website and once only.
There are a vast number of means to do this problem. The one with the smallest memory footprint, and the one that I would probably prefer in this case due to minimum code typing, is to create a for loop that executes ten times, and each time, get a number (to the same variable). After getting another number, add it onto a total (compound assignment operator, look it up if you don't recognize +=) and go around again.