just started learning c++ yesterday and i’d like some help in understanding post increments 🙂
Sorry if this is formated poorly! this is my first time learning programming and using this site!

This is an example of the problem:

int a = 3;

int b = a++;

cout << a << endl;
cout << b << endl;

when performing this line of code, why does the result end up in the values a = 4 and b = 3?

from my understanding I thought it would’ve resulted in a = 3 and b = 3 since variable a only gets incremented after it has returned the original value of 3.

Any help understanding would be greatly appreciated! Thank you for your time.