This document provides instructions for completing a programming lab assignment involving decisions and calculations in C++. The lab contains two parts: [1] A program that determines the smallest of two user-input numbers or displays that they are equal. [2] A program that calculates a shipping charge based on the cost of a user-input purchase amount according to a price table. The document provides sample outputs, pseudocode for the program logic, and step-by-step instructions for creating, building, running and capturing the output of the programs in Visual Studio.