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Summary

This lesson is the entrance to C++ tutorials and provides an overview of the language developed by Bjarne Stroustrup as an extension of C. C++ is known as a compiled language that supports multiple paradigms at once, ranging from procedural programming to object-oriented programming. On this page you will find a list of topics to be studied throughout the tutorial, so you know the learning map from basic to advanced material.

Key points

C++ is a language that is compiled into native programming, so it performs very quickly.
C++ is multi-paradigm: procedural, object-oriented, and generic programming.
Each C++ program has a minimum of main() as the starting point of execution.
Commonly used compilers include GCC, Clang, and MSVC.

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