On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 7:26 AM, bo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hello I just started a class on programming. The firs program was to
> write "Hello World". I downloaded the compiler "Magic C." When I ran
> the compiler it said "variable cout not found". Here is the code I
> typed. This is the way it was shown in the example in the book.
>
> #include <io.h>

There is no header io.h, this should be <iostream> (note there is no .h)

>
> int main ()
> {
>  cout << "Hello World!";

std::cout is what you want to use here. Alternatively, before main(),
add 'using namespace std;' and you can just use cout instead of
std::cout.

>  return 0;
> }
>
> I assume I missed something.

What class are you taking? What book are they teaching out of? It
seems they are teaching an outdated form of C++.

-- Brett
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