Magic Square program, please help!

[waketheford]

Been working on this magic square problem for a while now and I'm stuck, I have no idea what to do next, I'm pretty new to c++ so any help would be great. thanks

#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>

using namespace std;

int main(void) {
    int n;

cout << "Enter a value for n" <<
     << "n cannot be an odd integer" << endl;

cin >> n;

void magic(n) {
 for row = 0 to n-1
 for col = 0 to n-1
 square[row][col] = 0
}

int main(void) {
  const n 
  row = 0;
  col = n/2;
}

 for (i = 1 to n^2) {
  square[row][col] = i
  row--
  col++ 
}

//compensate for the edges

if square[row][col] != 0
  col--
  row+=2

//compensate for the edges

}
}

//output the square

return 0;

[NUj6URfi]

Why do you have two mains?

[waketheford]

Umm that's a good question, I shouldn't need that first one. Like I said, I'm pretty lost.

[waketheford]

so now I have this

#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>

using namespace std;

  int n;

cout << "Enter a value for n" <<
     << "n cannot be an odd integer" << endl;

cin >> n;

void magic(n) {
 for row = 0 to n-1
 for col = 0 to n-1
 square[row][col] = 0
}

int main(void) {
  const n 
  row = 0;
  col = n/2;
}

 for (i = 1 to n^2) {
  square[row][col] = i
  row--
  col++ 
}

//compensate for the edges

if square[row][col] != 0
  col--
  row+=2

//compensate for the edges
}
}

//output the square
	cout <<  square <<  endl;

return 0;
}

[S G H]

You are way too new to C++ to go "that deep".
Follow up some tutorials about how to code.
You'll come back here and laugh at your code.

[waketheford]

Yeah tell me about it, I'm an engineering major, and this is the only programming class I have to take, and it's the first programming class I've ever taken. And this is our second project, I'm kinda in over my head..