Introductory programming philosophy: Authors

[Arnold Itsov]

Bjarne Stroustrup most concise example of a program is "Hello, World!". If other authors would also use an example to introduce programming to those who know nothing, who are they and how would they explain this program. I am looking for a line by line explanation.

#include "std_lib_facilities.h"
int main()
{
cout << "Hello, World!\n";
return 0;
}

Ideally, I am looking for authors who do not think that using examples is the supreme approach to teaching.

[ModShop]

I'm not really sure what you're asking for, but if you want a line by line explanation of that program there's one in the tutorial on this website.

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/program_structure/