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In this section, we'll learn about expressions, statements and operators

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in c++.

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Expressions are the building blocks of statements.

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And statements are the building blocks of programming in c++.

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You've already seen variable declaration statements and IO statements,

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simple assignment statements and even the return statement.

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First, we'll talk about expressions and statements in general and their role in programming.

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Then we'll learn about block statements or compound statements.

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This allows us to group multiple statements that belong together

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into a single unit.

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The last part of this section is all about the main c++ operators

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in the context of statements and expressions.

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We'll first discuss the assignment operator, which is the key element of an assignment statement.

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Then we'll look at c++ arithmetic operators.

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These operators allow us to perform math

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very easily based on the math rules that we learned in school as kids.

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We'll then look at the increment and decrement operators.

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These operators are often used in c++ and can be confusing.

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I'll walk you through how to use them so it's clear.

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A common use case in programming is comparing two objects.

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We often need to know if one object is less than, greater than or equal to another object.

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And based on that result, we decide what our next action will be.

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These are the relational operators.

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After the relational operators, we'll look at the logical operators.

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The logical operators allow us to embed complex logic into our program,

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so we can solve difficult problems.

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If we put together expressions, containing relational and logical operators,

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we can solve extremely complex problems.

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Then we'll learn about c++ compound assignment statements.

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They allow us to perform an operation

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and assign the result of that operation using a simple syntax.

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Finally, we'll talk about operator precedence.

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Precedence determines in what order operators are executed.

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We've got a lot to cover in this section. So let's get started.