I taught my friend C++ over Steam chat, here's how it went.. Enjoy.

5:37 PM - Jack: Also you need to put semicolons all over the place.
5:37 PM - Jack: There's not much ryhme or reason as to where you put them, but trsut me, you need them.
5:39 PM - Scamster:
5:40 PM - Jack: Whenever some comes to me and says their game is broekn, I tell them it's probably a semicolon, and it almost always is.
5:40 PM - Jack: No why I say there is no rhym or reason is because...
5:40 PM - Jack: class SomeClas { }; <= needs semicolon
5:40 PM - Jack: but
5:41 PM - Jack: namespace SomeNamesapce {} <= doesn't ened semicolon.
5:41 PM - Jack: And...
5:41 PM - Jack: switch(somevalue){} <= doesn't need semicolon.
5:41 PM - Jack: but.
5:41 PM - Jack: enum SOMENUM{}; <= needs semicolon.
5:41 PM - Jack: Also
5:41 PM - Jack: for(int i=0; i<3; i++){} <= has semicolons in weird places, but doesn't need one at the end.
5:42 PM - Jack: What's alright though is if you add a semicolon where you don't need one, in many cases it's okay.
5:42 PM - Jack: not the namespace one thugh.

Wow. You're funny. Not.

[quote name='Alan Greenspan' timestamp='1353631940' post='5003349']
Wow. You're funny. Not.

Wow. You're funny. Not.

@OP: I appreciated it
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You've got to be kidding me, this sounds like a joke some tween who just started learning C++ made to his friend who knows nothing about programming.

I smiled and then remembered it was morning. It's generally much better advice than any advice I would have given when I was starting ("Just keep trying to turn all the *s into &s or ->s until it compiles").