Please explain. i am not getting it

what is the use of “int col=1” at the line no. 12 in the program? i am not getting the purpose of it because it is written with the “int” why do we need to write int with this?

int is data type of variable col
int col=1;
here we initialize it with 1

in c++ to use a variable first we have to declare it
for declaration we have to specifiy the data type like int, float ,char etc…