Learning to program in visual c++ 2008 express

deceit

This is the code i've been trying to get to work in visual c++ 2008 express edition. Could someone please tell me where I went wrong. Could be miles off as only learning it a day or two now.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main ()
{
cout << "Comment 1" << endl;
cout << "Comment 2" << endl;

for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)

<<
cout << i;
>>



system("pause");
}

Martyr

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the problem is there.

deceit

Thanks, I tried this and it seems to work:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main ()
{
cout << "Comment 1" << endl;
cout << "Comment 2" << endl;

for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++)

cout << i << endl;

system("pause");
}

Creamy Goodness

for your for loops you really should use {} for the statements you want to loop

for eg.

for(int i = 0 ; i < 10 ; i++)
{
    cout << i << endl;
}

the following will work but if you need two or more statements done in a loop you need { }

for(int i = 0 ; i < 10 ; i++)
    cout << i << endl;

deceit

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

for your for loops you really should use {} for the statements you want to loop

for eg.

for(int i = 0 ; i < 10 ; i++)
{
    cout << i << endl;
}

the following will work but if you need two or more statements done in a loop you need { }

for(int i = 0 ; i < 10 ; i++)
    cout << i << endl;

Thanks, thats alot of help .

Lab_Mouse

You will also find at the start a few of your problems will stem from typo's either forgetting semi colons or curly brackets.Some times these throw up strange error reports(not nessarily 'your missing a ';'!)

compile your code regularily(even every couple of lines of code at the start till your confident of your syntax) because i found if i didnt i could end up with nearly 30 errors,which i found daunting to go back and fix.

and enjoy the coding!

Creamy Goodness

also to add what lab_mouse said, compilers often single out a line of code where the error is e.g.: Error on line 43.

always check the line above as it possible that an error on line 42 may be causing the error.