c:\...\source\repos\HelloWorld\Debug\HelloWorld.exe (process 3764) exited with code 0

Question

I have a little issue with my first time programming. I get that message

is that ok to get "c:\users\amittler\source\repos\HelloWorld..."?

thanks for your help

Answer 1

Yes, it's OK to get this.

Your IDE is just telling you that the program finished running. And I presume that all your program does is printing "Hello World!", so it's finishing a split second after that.

"c:\users\amittler\source\repos\HelloWorld..."?

This is the location of your program. When your IDE is done building it, it has to put it somewhere before it can run it, and that's where it went.

(process 3764)

Your computer can do many things (seemingly) at once, and all these things running at the same time get a process number. It's basically an identification. It's telling you the process number that your program run had. Most of the time, you won't be needing this information.

exited with code 0

This means that your program has ran successfully. Actually, it's dependent on what you return in your main function. The convention is that 0 stands for success and everything else denotes an error. For instance, if a different program was calling your program and got a 0 back it knows it went well, otherwise it might react accordingly.