age test c++

Hi there! First of all, I'd like to say that it's been years since I've done any C++. But, as Treehouse doesn't offer any courses on C++, I'm not sure how many people are going to be willing to answer this question.

Long story short: the logic in your conditionals is incorrect. These should be set up as a series of if/else statements. Let me show you how I did it:

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    int age = 18;
    int age2;
    cout << "please enter age\n";
    cin >> age;
    if (age >= 18) {
        cout << "Adult";
    }
    else if(age >= 13) {
        cout << "teenager";
    }
    else if(age > 0)
    {
        cout << "child";
    }
    else {
        cout << "something's wrong";
    }

    cin >> age2;
    return 0;
}

Here we start with your initial age variable. I left it as is. Then I set up a new age. This is not actually necessary other than I want the console app to pause after it prints out. To do this we need a new cin to keep the app from immediately closing.

Now, we check if the age is over 18. Then we check to see if it's 13 or more. Then we check to make sure the age is over 0. And if none of those work, then we print out something is wrong. This is where I implemented the new cin line to pause the console program.

Note: Visual studio insisted that I have that first #include statement to build the program.

Hope this helps!

Jennifer Nordell do you think i am wasting time learning c++ and move my mined to c# as have read up that c++ is not widely used as much in the industry. ty.

great help and advise thank you very much for you time answering my questions. :)