Syntax error,what the h**l is it?

Question

every now and again i get a message to debug?ant got the foggiest!easy answers please very new to pc

Answer 1

I think its those things women wear when their having periods

Answer 2

It means you have wrote something down in the wrong format. The way you have wrote it, the comp doesn't expect it to be written like that. Check you havent missed anything out

Answer 3

Essentially it means you got your instructions mixed up.

Often the culprit is a comma instead of a period or a missing or additional bracket on your parenthesis.

The best way to avoid them is write nice tight little code packets that handle the more common instructions you are using.  Get them working as subroutines.  [You might even find the code is still fast enough that you don't need to take my next step....]

Then replace the subroutines with full copies of the code prior to compiling.  If you have many such incidences then change say .. 5 at a time and debug making care to save the code at every successful debug.  That way you only have to check for the errors on those 5.

[UPDATE] "Object Oriented Programming 'S"  ;]] I just realised you're new to PC.  I thought you were a budding Programmer, since you asked in Programming & Design.

Answer 4

Syntax error:

"A programming error caused by a violation of the rules that specify how a command or instruction should be given to a computer."

Answer 5

a syntax error is usually a code error or a code compilation error. they can range from 1 character to a whole line. so i wouldn't worry unless they are frequent.

Answer 6

are you talking about on your graphing calculator? becuase that happens to me as well. maybe your equation isnt graphable; but it basically means something is wrong with what you put in.

Answer 7

The grammatical arrangement of words in sentences is "syntax". your typing something wrong.