This link will catch you up on C++ header notation that is part of the ASNSI C++ standard (and differs from C header notation and the way C++ did things prior to the late 1998 issuance of the standard) http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/ansi/hfiles.html Here by the way is my rendition of the classic "Hello World" #include<iostream> using namespace std; //where the names are - like cout! int main(void) { cout << "This is what that putz Wayne said to do!\n"; return 0; } Wayne