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Grrrrrr

Now I've downloaded Dev-C++ and it seems to work fine and I've compiled my first program ever!!! The only problem is that when I try to run the program it is closed after 1/2 seconds or less...

This is the code I'm using:

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
cout << "My first program ";
return 0;
}

Anyone with any ideas? What can be wrong?

There's nothing wrong with the code in itself, it's just that console apps shut down as soon as you're finished.

You can write a batch file with the following lines

*****.exe (name of the executable)

pause

rename the text file to .bat and run it from there. Some compilers will do this for you when you run in debug mode, but not all.

That should work for you though. You could also put some kind of input statement at the end.

cout<<"Input q to quit."

char q;

cin>>q;

but that just looks bad, so go with the .bat method.

Because that's what everyone who does "Hello World" does...besides it can get annoying having to go back and grab specific components out of an object when you realized you just needed. Now when you release to the public...yeah, you'd better be getting only the things you need