What am I doing wrong?...

My code looks like this:

[File: q_zero/q_zero.c]
#include <stdio.h>

float answer; /* The result of our calculation */

int main()
{
answer = 1.0 / 3.0;
printf(“The value of 1/3 is %f\n”, answer);
return (0);
}

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And this is what I get in terminal when I try to compile it:

[localhost:~/learning_c] aaron% gcc q_zero.c o-q_zero
powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1: o-q_zero: No such file or directory
q_zero.c: In function 'main':
q_zero.c:8: error: stray '\210' in program
q_zero.c:8: error: 'The' undeclared (first use in this function)
q_zero.c:8: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
q_zero.c:8: error: for each function it appears in.)
q_zero.c:8: error: parse error before 'value'
q_zero.c:8: error: stray '\' in program
q_zero.c:8: error: stray '\211' in program
[localhost:~/learning_c] aaron%

1) you are using wrong qoutes in printf(“The value of 1/3 is %f\n”, answer);, use 0x22 "
2) wrong option format (gcc q_zero.c o-q_zero), must be gcc q_zero.c -o q_zero

I see the problem with the location of "-o" but I'm not sure I understand what you mean by the wrong type of quotes. Could you rewrite the code so that I can see it in use?

The code looks the same. It's the quote characters you are using. You aren't using ascii characters, they are unicode characters. Change them to ascii characters. The ascii representation for quote character (") is stored as 22 hexadecimal, or 34 decimal.

I hope that [File: q_zero/q_zero.c] is not a part of your source code.