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Introducing the Game Over

Program

The classic first task a programmer tackles in a new language is the Hello World program, which displays Hello World on the screen. The Game Over program

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puts a gaming twist on the classic and displays Game Over! instead. Figure 1.2 shows the program in action.


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Figure 1.2

Your first Cþþ program displays the two most infamous words in computer gaming.


You can download the code for this program from the Course Technology website (www.courseptr.com/downloads). The program is in the Chapter 1 folder; the filename is game_over.cpp.

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You can download all of the source code for the programs in this book by visiting www. courseptr.com/downloads and searching for this book. One way to search is by ISBN (the book's identification number), which is 1435457420.

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// Game Over

// A first Cþþ program

#include <iostream> int main()

{

std::cout << "Game Over!" << std::endl; return 0;

}

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