Why is it doing this?

Question

im trying to get it to ask user for 2 nums and add them then output it but it gives me a weird output. any idea?
https://code.sololearn.com/c03a3yRkHj4v/?ref=app

Answer 1

sum is being assigned the values of a and b before they are given values. All variables contain a garbage value before they're assigned something meaningful, which is where the weird result is coming from.

Place "sum = a + b;" after the cin instead.

Answer 2

ohhhhh okay thank yiu man that makes alotnof sense actually 😂