He he, I didn't have a C++ teacher! I do know what labels are but I don't think I've used one for years let alone used one in C++ which is why I was stumped. I should have STFW ;)

So far your friend is right then!

Ooh that's so cruel.

What is 'start:' I'm no c/c++ expert but that doesn't look like valid syntax to me.

Also you need to prefix cout with std:: or put a...

type the code tags in capital letters.

Compile runs the preprocessor and then turns your source code into object code.

Building involves the above step but also the linker which links all the compiled object code together into one exe...