Conversion
Change one data type into different data type.
What is type conversion or cast?
A data type that can hold a sequence of zero or more characters.
What is a string?
The five common arithmetic symbols.
What are +, -, *, /, %?
The C++ name for the kind of allowed data in a variable.
What is data type?
The data type name used to contain a single character value.
What is char?
An early encoding scheme that maps an integer number to a corresponding symbol.
What is ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)?
The name of the operation that joins two things, strings in this case, together.
What is concatenation?
These can change the order of operations in a mathematical expression.
What are parentheses?
The symbol used to move the value on the right side into the memory location designated on the left side.
What is the equal sign (=)?
The name of the convention that follows these rules: 1. The first letter of a variable is lower case 2. Subsequent letters of the same word are lower case 3. The first letter of new words are capitalized 4. Subsequent letters are lower case.
What is camel back or camel case notation?
When the compiler performs the type conversion.
What is implicit conversion?
A built in function that tells us the number of characters in a string.
What is .size() or .length()?
A mathematical expression that contains only this type of variable will ignore decimal values.
What is an int?
The C++ category name for numeric data that contains a decimal point.
What is floating point?
Another name for the primary storage of a computer.
What is RAM or Random Access Memory or Main Memory?
When the programmer performs the type conversion.
What is explicit conversion?
Typically a blank, tab or newline character – it terminates input to through cin.
What is whitespace?
A repeatable sequence of numbers.
What is pseudo random?
The name of the variable on the left side of an assignment operator.
What is an lvalue?
The input operator that removes characters from the input stream which were placed there by the user’s keyboard.
What is the stream extraction operator?
The fancy function to convert one data type to another.
What is static_cast<>()?
The syntax of the function used to get string input that may have whitespace included.
What is getline(source, targetStringVariable)?
A starting value used to generate a sequence of pseudo random numbers.
What is a seed?
A named location in memory used to hold data values.
What is a variable?
Tells the compiler to include some other code before it does its job.
What is a preprocessor directive?