‘cout’ does not name a type

Question

I was learning Adam Drozdek\'s book \"Data Structures and Algorithms in C++\", well, I typed the code in page 15 in my vim and compiled it in terminal of my Ubuntu 11.10.

Answer 1

Including:

int main()
{ //code 
  return 0;
}

will help you. This problem usually occurs to those who are learning from book in which they usually don't use main function after a few chapters.