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Misc C++ things I have trouble understanding

I find myself asking myself certain questions when I am programming C++. When I consult textbooks, I often find the answers cryptic, or over simplified. Lately, I have been experimenting with pointers and OOP.

I'll start with OOP. Here, I've written a program that declares a class for some of the properties of a gem, creates a gem named "bob", and within the main function, the characteristics for bob are declared then echoed back.

Code:

//*********************************

//Name: Bill                                          *

//Project: OOP Experiment                 *

//Date: 3/31/04                                   *

//*********************************

//Includes*************************

#include<iostream.h>

#include<lvp\string.h>

//*********************************

enum Color{red, blue, green, amber, violet};

enum Cut{diamond, marquis, oval, round, square};

//Gem******************************

Class Gem

{

 

 public:

  double height;

  double width;

  Color color;

  Cut cut;

  bool isCut (void);

  bool isPolished (void);

};

Gem bob;

//*********************************

 

//Main*****************************

int main()

{

 

 bob.height=5;

 bob.width=3;

 bob.color=blue;

 bob.cut=diamond;

 

 cout << "Here\'s some stuff about Bob\'s Gem: " << endl;

 cout << "The height: " << bob.height << endl;

 cout << "The width: " << bob.width << endl;

 cout << "The color: " << bob.color << endl;

 cout << "The cut: " << bob.cut << endl;

 return(0);

}

//*********************************

I don't know whether or not I'm doing this right, so if I'm not, please, let me know. I know to the compiler I'm not doing it right, because when I attempt to compile, I recieve 3 errors:

Code:

--------------------Configuration: oop - Win32 Debug--------------------

Compiling...

object.cpp

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\MyProjects\oop\object.cpp(17) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before identifier 'Gem'

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\MyProjects\oop\object.cpp(17) : error C2501: 'Class' : missing storage-class or type specifiers

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\MyProjects\oop\object.cpp(17) : fatal error C1004: unexpected end of file found

Error executing cl.exe.



object.obj - 3 error(s), 0 warning(s)

I'm in my first semester of C++, and we haven't covered OOP yet, and we won't cover pointers at all. If anyone has a good tutorial on pointers, I'd appreciate it. I would also appreciate it if someone could help me with my OOP woes.

I guess I seem like a C++ n00b, but we all have to start somewhere, I guess.