I am just starting this book and am in Chapter 1. I have created an empty project as the book shows and was able to type in code. What Ivor Horton does not tell you at this point is how to add one of the down loaded files to the project. I have attmepted to do this seemingly simple task, but nothing seems to do the trick. Here is what I have done:
After opening the project I Right Clicked in the Solution Explorer box. Then selected ADD NEW ITEM from the drop down menu. In the ADD NEW ITEM box I selected CODE under the installed templates and C++ file (.cpp) from the middle of the box. At the bottom of the Box I selected Browse located next to the location field and selected the folder containing my unzipped fle. In the name box I entered the name of my file.

The system then went to the Editor box with only a line number 1 displayed but nothing else.

Any help on this would be appreciated.

I would recommend that you enter the code examples manually. This will give you experience and confidence in programming in C++ and help you to think about the functionality you are creating, line by line.

Randy207,

I strongly agree with the reply by gsallis. I hope you have continued your work through the book. The exercises in Chapter 1 are for the purpose of showing how to create projects of various types. The later chapters arre where you actually write code.

If for any reason you wish to use the code provided to see how it works (or other reasons) see this post I submitted a few minutes ago.

I can see where comparing the results of your code and the author's code may be of benefit from time to time if you take the time to play computer. By play computer I mean go through the code one line at a time and record the results on paper as you understand the results to be. Comparing your code to correctly written code can be a valuable tool.

Once again I echo gsallis. Type the code yourself. It will help you create good habits when composing code and help you understand why you are using every line in the program.

drpepper