I'm making a little addition Caclulator

I just started C++.

Well this is what I have so far:

Code:

 #include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()

{
    string x;
    cout << "What is the first number you want to add?";
    cin >> x;
    cout << "The first number you want too add is: " << x << endl;
    cout << "  " << endl;
    string q;
    cout << "What is the second number you want to add?";
    cin >> q;
    cout << "The second number you want to add too " << x << " is " << q << endl;
    return 0;
}

My question is; What do I do too add X too Q. I did:

Code:

cout << x + q << endl;

But all that does is make the two numbers side-by-side. So let's say the user chose 7 as the first number and 12 as the second. It would be:

Code:

712

I want it too give me the answer instead of 712. So 7+12 is 19. So it would be:

Code:

19

Some snippets from your code:

Code:

string x;
...
string q;
...
cout << x + q << endl;

What is the result of "adding" two strings? How would you add the strings "Hi" + " there"? The language doesn't know that you have in fact read numbers in the the string variables. For strings, "add" means "concatenate".

You can read in number values like double from stdin. Just change the types of x, q to double or int and give it another try.

I figured it all out. It was supposed to be an int. Thank you!