Sorry if I seem a bit brash or hasty.
My motivation for the prog, or learning c++ (the one I want to learn, not c)? For the prog, I want to take the simple chunk of this video (chunks as in, the labeled parts in the description)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rub-JsjMhWY and I want to take it a bit above and beyond the very simple examples he appears to give. For learning c++, well I aspire to make games. While I know that not all of game developing is code, I realize that it will help me with many things computer related. Also, a secret project I am working on (that at this rate will take years). Also, the 10 other errors I mentioned, are all pretty much the same thing. They want me to put a , or a ; before some (, ), or {, or } token, but when I do that it asks for prime expressions or unqualified-id's. With the code how it is now, I don't need any prime expressions or any symbols anywhere. Just the unqualified-id, whatever that is.
I suppose that I know enough about switch statements that I can just scrap this prog. I don't actually need to make it work, and with the patch job that it has now it would need to be re-written, but with all of the tips that I am getting the code is getting very complicated for someone with as little knowledge as I. Maybe when I get a better understanding I can come back, develop a style that will make it easier to read, and make proper working code. I have completed the goal, somewhat, of taking the video's parts and trying to expand them.
The video seems to be a good example/tutorial because he has many videos on many languages, and seems to be quite popular. If he wasn't doing something right, he wouldn't have any sort of following. Unless he were funny or something. I know I am guessing at it, but the information doesn't appear false, at least for now.
I should have been changing the post, but for some reason editing the original post hadn't crossed my mind. Schools have a way of taking critical thinking away from you, but they aren't solely to blame. I can edit it quickly enough, but I explained what I had changed to "fix" the "nontechnical" bug.
I know that the code is a different way of thinking, to paraphrase. I have never really seen C before, just some html, java, c#, and c++, as well as some others I probably don't know the name of. I have read that c++ was designed to be a sort of balance of two different ways to write code, but that was on a badly translated Italian - English webpage which could have been completely false. Maybe I should watch more of the video, see if I can get a grasp of it, and then mix concepts together. That way I could possibly avoid having to look up bits of code that would take up large chunks of my programs, and I would be able to write code without any "confusion," as stated above.