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Project layout

Project layout

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Project layout

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- [Instructor] It is important for a C++ programmer to understand the layout of their projects and where they are stored in the file system. Close the current project, if one is open, and start another. So this time we'll use the New Project icon. Once again, CC++, CC++ Application, Next. We'll call this one averages. The rest of the defaults can remain the way they are. We'll click finish. We'll open up. We'll see the test.cpp here. In fact, we don't even need this yet. We'll come up here to averages. We hover above it. We right click, go down to properties. In the project properties modal, we will do a Control + A, and then a Control + C to copy the complete path to our project. We'll go to File Explorer. We'll click in the path bar, do a Control + V to paste the files, and Enter. Next we will open another File Explorer window. Go to Desktop, Exercise files, 01_05. Go to the Begin. We're going to copy both of these files, main.cpp and test-scores. Right click, copy. We no longer…

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