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       Tutorial #4 - Intro to variables.
       By: Hondaman Date: October 9, 2010, 5:45 am
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       [center]Welcome to Tutorial No.4
       In this tutorial you will learn how to use the int variable and
       what variables are for are for.[/center]
       [font=trebuchet ms]About Variables -[/font]
       A variable is simply a place holder for something else.
       This being you could make the word 'Awesome' be equal to '0'
       Variables are in *(I THINK)* every game.
       Without them the game just wouldn't work as it could, or should.
       [font=trebuchet ms]Part 1 - Setting up a variable[/font]
       Before we can output anything we need to asign a value to a
       word, phrase or number
       Varable names can be anything e.g.
       Char1, 11011 or User_Inpt
       This means you can have as many variables in a script as you can
       think of combinations of numbers, letters or both.
       But there is a few small rules you may want to follow.
       You dont have to but I reccommend you do.
       1 - Name variables with a name related to what they are for e.g.
       User_name, Username, User_N etc... (Makes the code easyer to
       understand)
       2 - Dont make variable names too long e.g. User_N (this means
       that you will come across less errors when typing the name of
       the variable.)
       Now to setup your variable.
       Using you hello world script
       [code]
       #include <iostream>
       using namespace std;
       
       int main()
       {
       cout << "Hello World!" << endl;
       system ("pause");
       return 0;
       }
       [/code]
       above 'cout << "Hello World!" << endl;'
       add another line and type in 'int'
       this should go bold. Int is short for integer and an integer is
       a whole number.
       after in type in your variable name, I'm going to use 'cheese'
       and then a semi-colon.
       so it should look like -
       [code]
       int cheese;
       [/code]
       This basicly means we are going to assign an integer to the word
       cheese.
       and now below 'int cheese;' type
       [code]
       cheese = 124;
       [/code]
       So now we have just made the word cheese equal to 124.
       [font=trebuchet ms]Part 2 - Using the variable[/font]
       To output this simply edit your
       [code]
       cout << "Hello World!" << endl;
       [/code]
       To -
       [code]
       cout << cheese << endl;
       [/code]
       This will output 124 from the variable.
       And if you want to have the output as , 'Text , 124 , Text'
       then all you have to do is type -
       [code]
       cout << "Hello World! " << cheese << " Is my favorite number."
       [/code]
       Remember! -
       put a space after "Hello World! "
       and befor " Is my favorite number"
       this is because if you dont the program will output
       [code]
       Hello World!124Is my favorite number.
       [/code]
       Instead of
       [code]
       Hello World! 124 Is my favorite number.
       [/code]
       Thanks for reading this tutorial.
       If there was anything you didn't understand or anything is wrong
       PM me.
       Hondaman.
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