Thread: its my first day and i was wondering...

its my first day programming in anything...
and i was messing with something off of this tutorial (click here)

the point in my modification is to make anything above 60 say you are old and anything below it say you are young
i got that part working

after that i decided i wanted to make it so if you say a certian number (66 here)
that it would respond "moo"

i dont know what i did wrong though... perhaps someone else with more experiance can help me...

also... what does iostream mean and why doesnt it work without it... the first guide doesnt say what it is and why it doesnt work without it but it says it doesnt work without it...
i assume there are other things besides iostream...


and finally... the code in question

Code:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    int age;
    cout<<"please input your age:";
  cin>> age;  
    cin.ignore();
    if ( age < 60 ) ! ( 66 ) {
            cout<<"you are pretty young \n";
            }
    else if ( age > 60 ) ! ( 66 ) {
            cout<<"you are really old \n";
            }
    else if ( age == 66 ) {
            cout<<"moo \n";
            }
            cin.get();
            }

To combine two conditions you need the boolean and operator: &&. Also, to check if something is not equal to something else, you use the not equal operator: !=. So to check for age greater than 60 and not 66, you would use (age > 60 && age != 66).

<iostream> indicates to your program that you are using stuff from the library that is included in iostream. You can use different standard library headers like <fstream>, <string> or others. In this case, you are using cout and cin from iostream. By including that header, the compiler can look up what cout and cin mean. They are really just variables like age in your code, but they've been declared and defined somewhere else.

Each new condition you add must be complete, so it should be && age != 99.

You can do it with characters, but be patient, you'll learn that in time.

As for the conflict at 60, make one of your conditions <= or >= to count the 60.

thanks agian

as for the conflict i just changed one number to 61...

also... what does iostream mean and why doesnt it work without it...

There are certain things your program needs to run without errors. Those things are in a certain file called <iostream>. An #include statement says to replace the #include statement with the contents of the specified file. As a result, <iostream> becomes part of your program.

Write a simple program that displays "hello world" and even though your program will only be about 5 lines long, you can check the size of your compiled file, and it will be gigantic. That is because <iostream> is included in your program, and it has a lot of stuff in it.