nOOb question: configuring number of windows at startup

[luca . pamparana]

Hello everyone,

I am just moving over to emacs and want to use ot for all my C++
development. I want to configure the start screen so that I get two
vertical buffers and a single terminal window at the bottom of my
screen.

So, something like:

----------------------------------------
code window| code window
----------------------------------------
    terminal window
----------------------------------------

Is it possible to specify this in the .emacs file, so that the default
emacs opens with this setup?

Many thanks,

Luca