Thread: Newbie issues programming C w/i Xcode

Hello,

I'm completely new to programming. I heard great things about the book, "C by Example," and fortunately, my library has an ebook version of it. For the very first program the book instructs us to run, I copied and pasted the code directly from the ebook into Xcode, but it won't run! I'm totally new, so just trying to get a hang of things. Any ideas of what's going on?

Thanks!

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The double single quotes (') at the beginning of the printf statement should be a single double quote (")

Why don't you just post the code ?

'' (two single quotes) is not the same thing as " (double quote).

main returns an int.

Code:

int main(void)

Thanks guys, the quote was the issue. I haven't gotten to the chapter where we learn to analyze the structure of C code, so I was totally oblivious to that being the issue. I just couldn't figure out why a direct copy and paste of the code wouldn't run!

I'm glad to have found a forum with such a great community as I take on the huge endeavor of learning C (and later Objective-C)!

BTW, for those interested, the code is below:

/* Filename: C1FIRST.C
Requests a name, prints the name 5 times, and rings a bell */


#include <stdio.h>
#define BELL '\a'


main()
{
int ctr=0; /* Integer variable to count through loop */
char fname[20]; /* Define character array to hold name */


printf("What is your first name? "); /* Prompt the user */
scanf(" %s", fname); /* Get the name from the keyboard */
while (ctr < 5) /* Loop to print the name */
{ /* exactly 5 times */
printf("%s\n", fname);
ctr++;
}
printf("%c", BELL); /* Ring the terminal's bell */
return 0;
}