Thread: What's wrong with my code?

I'm just starting out with C++ (and programming in general), and my first program is giving me problems.

Its purpose is to generate
"-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 12345678910" as an output, but all I get is the euquivalent of "-9 \n"

Code:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
    int x = -10;
    int tracker = 1;
    while (tracker != 2) {
           x = x + 1; cout << x;
           if (x = 0) { cout << "        ";}
           else if (x = 10) { cout << "\n"; tracker = tracker + 1; x = -10;}}
     cin.get(); 
}

EDIT - some of that code may seem redundant at the moment, but future versions will create a set number of lines of that output.

Secondly, it's also a good idea to set out your code properly.

Like this:-

Code:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
    int x = -11;
    int tracker = 1;
    while (tracker != 2) 
    {
           x = x + 1; 
           cout << x;
           if (x ==  0)  // This is what you need
           {
                cout << "        ";
           }
            if (x ==  10) //This is what you need
           { 
               cout << "\n"; 
               tracker = tracker + 1;
               //x = -10;
           }
    }
     cin.get(); 
}

It's more readable and will help you when you consider writing programs that are much longer than this one.

Doh! Thanks Treenef! And Elad, normally I do set out my code as you described, but I had to throw some stuff in the middle of it, and fixing the structure wouldn't have been worth the effort since it is a small program.