cin

Question

I'm not exactly sure how this works. It says something about the input device. I'm new to programming. Could anyone help clear this up?

Answer 1

e.g.

int x;
cout << "Please input an integer to x" << endl;
cin >> x;

cout << "Your input is " << x;

// while cout is used to print information to the screen, cin is used to read information from the user and store them into variables.

Answer 2

cin is an object for standard input from the keyboard