after a very unproductive day! - code bugs

[Acidburn]

This is gonna take some time, anyway here it is:

the student class :

#ifndef STUDENT_H
#define STUDENT_H

class Student
{
public:
   Student(const char *, const char *, const Date&, const job&);
   char * getfirstName();
   char * getlastName();
   void getbirthdate();
   void getjobnumber();

private:

   char firstname[25];
   char lastname[25];

    Date birthdate;
    job jobnumber;
};

#endif

the student class functions:

#include "student.h"

Student::Student(const char *first, const char *last, const Date &dateOfbirth, const job &jobs):birthdate(dateOfbirth), jobnumber(jobs)
{
strcpy(firstname ,  first ); 
strcpy(lastname, last);
} //constructor

char *Student::getfirstName()
{
   return firstname;
}

char *Student::getlastName()
{
return lastname;
}


void Student::getbirthdate()
{
    birthdate.getDate();
}    


void Student::getjobnumber()
{
jobnumber.getjobnumber();
}

the date class

#ifndef DATE_H
#define DATE_H

class Date
{
public:
   Date(int = 1, int = 1 , int = 1900);
   int getday();
   int getmonth();
   int getyear();
   void getDate();

private:
   int month, day, year;

};

#endif

the date class functions:

#include "date.h"
Date::Date(int dy, int mn, int yr):month(mn), day(dy), year(yr)
{
  
}

int Date::getday()
{
   return day;
}
int Date::getmonth()
{
   return month;
}

int Date::getyear()
{
   return year;
}


void Date::getDate()
{
    cout << day << "/" << month << "/" << year;
}

and now the new class that im trying to put in:

class job
{
public:
job(int = 1);
int getjob();
void setjob(int);
   void printjob();
   void getjobnumber():


private:

int jobnumber;

};

job::job(int a ) :jobnumber(a)
{
   cout << "constructor call" << endl << "The value is :" << jobnumber;
}

int job::getjob()
{
   cout << "job is: "<<endl;
   return jobnumber;
}

void job::printjob()
{
cout << jobnumber;
}

void job::setjob(int a)
{
jobnumber = a;
}

void getjobnumber()
{
cout << "the job number is: "<<jobnumber;
}

and heres main:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

#include "date.h"
#include "job.h"
#include "student.h"



int main()
{
   char firstname [25];
   char secondname[25];

   int day = 0, month = 0, year = 0;


   cout << "\n\n --------------------------------------------------------------\n" <<endl;

      cout << "please enter your students details - " << endl;

      cout << "D.O.B ";

      cin >> day >> month >> year;

      Date birth(day , month , year);

      cout << "Please enter that students name" << endl;

      job job1(1);

      cin >> firstname >> secondname;

      Student student1(firstname, secondname, birth, job1);

      cout << "please enter there transaction number: "<<endl;

  

      cout << "the details you entered are :" <<endl;

      cout << "name is : " << student1.getfirstName() << " "<< student1.getlastName();
     
      cout << ", and there birthdate is : "; student1.getbirthdate();
    

   return 0;
}

but I get around 9 errors:

d:\extra programming\temp\class\student.h(5) : error C2236: unexpected 'class' 'Student'
d:\extra programming\temp\class\student.h(5) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before '{'
d:\extra programming\temp\class\student.h(5) : error C2447: missing function header (old-style formal list?)
D:\extra programming\temp\Class\class2.cpp(35) : error C2065: 'Student' : undeclared identifier
D:\extra programming\temp\Class\class2.cpp(35) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'student1'
D:\extra programming\temp\Class\class2.cpp(35) : error C2065: 'student1' : undeclared identifier
D:\extra programming\temp\Class\class2.cpp(43) : error C2228: left of '.getfirstName' must have class/struct/union type
D:\extra programming\temp\Class\class2.cpp(43) : error C2228: left of '.getlastName' must have class/struct/union type
D:\extra programming\temp\Class\class2.cpp(45) : error C2228: left of '.getbirthdate' must have class/struct/union type
Error executing cl.exe.

looking at the code I cant see whats wrong! Everything works if i take away the job class and restore it. So its obviuosly nothing wrong with date class. Any ideas?

[Narue]

>Everything works if i take away the job class
So the problem is with job.h and you can focus your debugging there. For example:

void getjobnumber()

Don't you think that should be:

void job::getjobnumber()

It's also a good idea to tell your compiler to produce preprocessed output so that you can make sure everything is kosher after it's all put together.

[Acidburn]

whoopies. I'm gonna get to bed, perhaps spending a constant 6 -8 hours on the code isnt a good idea!! I'll begin debuggin 2moro