Lab A – Visual Studio 2015: Creating, Debugging, and Running a C++ program

1) Find and start visual studio 2015 on your lab computer.

2) Create a folder called comp150 on your M drive and copy lab resources to this folder from

\\cs1\classes and navigate to the Ragsdale class. Placing your work on your M drive will allow

you to access to it from just about anywhere, even from a browser. The URL

hushares.harding.edu will take you to a web file manager and allow you access to your M drive

through your Harding pipeline username/password.

3) Create your first VS 2015 project – call it FirstProgram. Make sure you save it to your M

drive.

4) Copy the lab resource file for Lab A into your project folder. Examine the contents in the lab

folder.

5) Take time to examine the C++ code.

6) COMPILE the code.

7) BUILD the code.

8) RUN the code.

9) Introduce an error into the code and DEBUG it. Then….COMPILE, BUILD, AND RUN

the code.

10) Submit your code to EASEL.