OT: Look what I can do...

Fyron · #1 April 20th, 2005, 01:16 PM

Yeah, that program is all wrong.

Combat Wombat · #2 April 20th, 2005, 02:15 PM

I don't believe you can legally have a first C++ program without it including "Hello World".

Aiken · #3 April 20th, 2005, 02:45 PM

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

AngleWyrm · #4 April 20th, 2005, 03:38 PM

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

boran_blok · #5 April 20th, 2005, 03:41 PM

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 · #6 April 20th, 2005, 03:42 PM

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

geoschmo · #7 April 20th, 2005, 04:03 PM

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 · #8 April 20th, 2005, 04:16 PM

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.

Slynky · #9 April 20th, 2005, 10:17 PM

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

Will · #10 April 20th, 2005, 10:16 PM

Quote:

boran_blok said:
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.

Ah, but there are objects. He clearly uses both the pre-defined cin and cout for standard input and standard output, respectively, and also uses the class ofstream for file output. Just because he hasn't created a class doesn't mean it's not OOP. I think Java has started to rot people's minds, making programmers think something is never OO unless you type "class foo" somewhere...

And I don't know about the rest of you, but I started in C, at 14 years old. A year later I learned "BASIC", but it was the version in my TI calculator, not this Visual nonsense. I technically still haven't "learned" VB, but really, do I need to? I can read the stuff, and if I'm ever asked to write it for some horrid reason... well, I'll burn that bridge when I get to it.