C++ syntax

- [Narrator] This video reviews the C++ syntax.…I find it helpful to think of syntax…as the grammar of a programming language.…For example, what is the symbol…that you would use at the end…of a sentence in English?…Chances are you're going to say the period.…Well, in C++ we have something similar.…At the end of every C++ statement…we end that statement…with instead of a period, a semicolon.…It is important to note that the period,…or the dot symbol, is used for other purposes in C++,…so we use the semicolon at the end of each statement.…

Here are some of the symbols that you'll see in C++ syntax.…The pound sign, which is sometimes referred to…as the hash mark.…The less than and greater than symbols,…but when they're used together like that,…or if they have a word between them,…they actually have a different meaning,…and they actually enclose a directive,…and we'll talk more about that.…Followed by, open curly bracket and close curly bracket.…Then we have the square brackets.…Next we have the scope resolution operator.…