OT: Look what I can do...

[Aiken]

It only means that geo's really first programm was written in Basic.
But he will never admit it

[AngleWyrm]

Yea? Look what I can do: C++ hat random container template library addition

[boran_blok]

Lemme tell you, that is C not C++ it might be C++ syntax but C++ implies OO programming. dunno if you guys see that.
having a single main aint a good sign

but if it's meant to be procedural it looks like a well structured program.

[Fyron]

C++ is not strictly object oriented. It is well suited for procedural programming (more so than the ever so clunky C).

[geoschmo]

Aww you guys are tough.

Yeah we did the "Hello world" stuff in class. Everything up to this point was copying down code that the instructor did or doing the step by step stuff in the book. This one was the first one that I wrote on my own. All I had to work with was what the input and required output was supposed to look like.

And as far as it being C instead of C++, all I have to say to that is, even better. I'm bilingual!

[AngleWyrm]

Suggestion for version 2:
Separate input, output and processing into their own functions. It's real good exercise. Something like

main(){
get_input( variables )
process_input( variables )
put_output(screen)
put_output(file)
}

My brother never learned to use functions, and now he codes his entire programs all in main().
So now he can't write big programs, because after a while it becomes too much to follow in one function.
Try reading a 500-line function! One page is plenty.

[NullAshton]

Nothing compared to my 500 or so lines of spagetti code written in qbasic.

[Suicide Junkie]

NullAshton said:
Nothing compared to my 500 or so lines of spagetti code written in qbasic.

Or my first serious program, which was almost a thousand lines of GW-Basic code.
All my variables were 4 or 5 character acronyms.
And it had no elses or block-ifs, since I didn't know about them at the time.
Instead, I used If-Dosomething-Goto

I'd estimate that up to 10% of the instructions in that program were gotos!

But at least it was neat, well organized spaghetti code.

[Slynky]

Gotta take my hat off to anyone who's got the initiative to learn a programminglanguage this "late in the game".

[TurinTurambar]

Slynky said:
Gotta take my hat off to anyone who's got the initiative to learn a programminglanguage this "late in the game".

Amen brother.