Your code has an issue with it: While you use the correct standard header notation, you have left out one important detail. cout is located in the standard namespace, so you either have to add using namespace std; to tell the compiler where the name cout is defined or qualify the name to tell where it comes from, i.e. std::cout #include <iostream> using namespace std; int main() { cout << "Hello"; }; This link will catch you up more fully on standard headers: http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/ansi/hfiles.html Wayne