https://w.trhou.se/wp7153p386 why when i enter 30 it says bash: 30: command not found

Umesh Ravji - +1 for a solid catch. I missed it at first glance. Adding the semi-colon and recompiling the code allowed the program to run through a single cycle as expected with the existing code.

Actually your answer was something I never considered and your right, the existing Program.exe simply printed the message to the console and finished running.

Umesh Ravji - Honestly, after I read your answer and saw the missing semi-colon and your error report, I was rather surprised that it had compiled in the first place. Your answer was more accurate than mine, as fixing that issue also resolved the program to wait for input before closing. I hadn't considered it would be something like the semi-colon because the program actually had compiled enough to run when I tried to run it.

still don't understand where am i missing the semi colon and when i put

// Prompt user for minutes exercised System.Console.Write("Enter how many minutes you exercised; ")

Where do i add it?

the semi colon is after the last bracket?

On this line..

System.Console.Write("Enter how many minutes you exercised: ") 

semi colon to finish the line. yes after the bracket

Just like that. Don't feel dumb, just learn from your mistakes :)

You first need to recompile the code after you added the missing semicolon. You can figure out how to do that by rewatching this or just glancing at the teacher notes on the video. Once it compiles properly, you should be able to run the program by typing what you just did into the Workspaces terminal. If you haven't changed anything but the semicolon since I looked at your code last, it will run fine and ask for how long you exercised, waiting for input, then it will close out once you provide the input (since you hadn't built the loop and exit functionality at that time).

Hi Bikram, you have a colon, instead of a semi-colon at the end of the line I have mentioned below. Are you not getting that error when you are compiling your code? Since the code is not compiling properly, you are running an older version of Program.exe (which I recommend you just delete).

treehouse:~/workspace$ mcs Program.cs                                                                           
Program.cs(10,42): error CS1525: Unexpected symbol `:', expecting `,' or `;'                                    
Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warnings 

string entry = System.Console.ReadLine(); // you have a : instead of ;