Program help

[MahalKita0612]

Hello! I am very new to programming and I can not figure out how to do this code. It has been a struggle the past weekend trying to figure it out. The program is:

"A loop that keeps reading words until it runs out of input, and prints the words that are alphabetically first and last. You can assume that the words are actual words and all in lowercase."
This is what I have so far:

int main ()
{
string current;
cout << "Enter a word" << ".\n"

while(cin>>current)

{
}
}

I am completely stuck, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

[VictorN]

Did you try to take a piece of paper with a pen/pencil and write on how you would do it...?

[MahalKita0612]

Did you try to take a piece of paper with a pen/pencil and write on how you would do it...?

Yes, but I just don't know how to execute it in the program. I'm just unsure how I would write it in C++ language in order for the program to run the way I want it to.

[VictorN]

Well, let's do it step-by-step!
What is your two (or three) first paper-steps to solve the problem?

[2kaud]

It is helpful when posting code to use code tags so that the code is formatted for readability. Go Advanced, select the code and click '#'.

As you need to determine the first and last word, you're going to need two string variables - one to hold the current first and one to hold the current last. So for each word read, you'll need to determine if this one is the new current first or is the new current last.

Once the loop has terminated (what is the terminating condition?) then the current first and current last variables will hold the values required.

As Victor mentions, before you start coding you should design the program first, then code the program from the design and then test/debug the program.

[MahalKita0612]

I need to have a loop that reads in words, which requires the user to input a word throughout the loop. The program would then need to stop when the user doesn't input any more words into the program.

[2kaud]

So you need something like this as pseudo code

loop
    display message
    obtain word

    if word entered then
       process word

until word not entered

display first and last word