The bigginers program from the tutorial

[coolcomputergeek]

I was taking the tutorial here. It said the first program most programers make is hello world. I copyed the source code. And then opened a notepad doc and pasted it in there. Then I saved it and then I saved it again as a exe doc and when I click it to open it it came up with ms dos. Then an error comes up and then it closes. can you help me make that program or can you tell me whats wrong or give me another way step by step please.

[Zhuge]

You need to get a compiler to compile the code. Simply renaming a text file .exe will not work.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compilers#C.2FC.2B.2B_compilers

[Hazer]

It's not so simple...
At first you need a compiler and linker or IDE. Compiler translates your program into machine code and saves it as .obj file. But it's not ready to use. Linker makes the executable from one or more .obj files. Then you program will work.
IDE is special tool for making apps. It includes compiler, linker, text editor and debuging tools. It is simple to use.
Use google to search IDE's (Dev c++ is free)

[coolcomputergeek]

thank you

That what I needed to know. Also I would like to say im a new programmer here. I just decided to make cool stuff with programs. I am a web master I started making web sites from when I was in grade school. Now I'm ready to do somthing new fun and cool. I have alot a head of me.

[Hazer]

Don't think that programming is very easy.
Just keep going ;-)