programming (2 Viewers)

[Dumbarse]

i had to do C programming at Uni this session
and i have to say programming is so stoopid/hard/boring

does anyone hear actually like programming or is good at it?

 

[Winston]

Yeah i like it, it's fun and challenging.

 

[Dumbarse]

fun and challenging?

u gotta be kidding me
stdio.h
if
else
scanf


its like learning arabic and then writing a 200 line C program, to run something that prints out 4 lines
useless dribble

 

[Winston]

i dont program in C, but i know wat u mean, u gott like it to enjoy it, so yeah, but it is logical.

 

[-X-]

Originally posted by Dumbarse
its like learning arabic and then writing a 200 line C program, to run something that prints out 4 lines
useless dribble

#include <iostream.h>

void main()
{
	cout << "First Line \n Second Line \n Third Line \n Fourth Line \n";
}

200 lines?

 

[freaking_out]

Originally posted by -X-

#include <iostream.h>

void main()
{
	cout << "First Line \n Second Line \n Third Line \n Fourth Line \n";
}

200 lines?

i think he meant, to actually print out 4 lines on the printer...but then again, that couldn't b 200 lines either.

 

[...]

haha, my dad is a computer programmer...never heard him whinge

 

[hurrotisrobbo]

I love it.

Yes, you can do more things than print out 4 lines in 200 lines of code. You must be thinking of bloatware (MS's department ).

I prefer scripting languages nowadays, but I really should learn some C some day.

 

[sunny]

It really depends on what you are doing and if it'll eventually grab your interest.

Which uni are you going to?

We did C this session too (UNSW COMP1721) and our two assignments were a handwriting recognition, and a (subset of) C compiler to MIPS assembly.

Both were very chanllenging and fun to do, especially the handwriting recognition assignment when you consider the real word uses of such technologies.

 

[jm1234567890]

you can write everything in 2 lines if you wanted:

#include <iostream.h>
void main(){cout << "First Line \n Second Line \n Third Line \nFourth Line \n";}

 

[hurrotisrobbo]

#include <iostream.h>
int main(){for (int ii = 0; ii < 4; ii++){cout << "Line #" << ii << "\n"; return 0;}}

Allows for more than four lines. Follows Unix return-value conventions.
(It's pseudo Java, though. Do you dealloc vars in C++?)

 

[Protector]

C isn't so bad... I don't know why some people whinge about it. I mean... look at Delphi... THAT makes no sense (IMHO )

 

[~Perfection]

programming isnt that bad once you understand the language..

its very rewarding when the code works

 

[freaking_out]

Originally posted by jm1234567890
you can write everything in 2 lines if you wanted:

#include <iostream.h>
void main(){cout << "First Line \n Second Line \n Third Line \nFourth Line \n";}

u've killed the joke.

 

[McLake]

Originally posted by sunny
It really depends on what you are doing and if it'll eventually grab your interest.

Which uni are you going to?

We did C this session too (UNSW COMP1721) and our two assignments were a handwriting recognition, and a (subset of) C compiler to MIPS assembly.

Both were very chanllenging and fun to do, especially the handwriting recognition assignment when you consider the real word uses of such technologies.

I, like sunny, did COMP1721 @ UNSW this year. I'm finding it fun, challenging and enlightening ...

 

[jm1234567890]

Originally posted by ~Perfection
programming isnt that bad once you understand the language..

its very rewarding when the code works

It is also very frustrating when it doesn't work.
Then after 1/2 of testing you find you typed a "+" as a "-"

 

[Winston]

Originally posted by jm1234567890
It is also very frustrating when it doesn't work.
Then after 1/2 of testing you find you typed a "+" as a "-"

I think something that i overlooked and took me ages by slowly analysing it was accidentally having a variable named the same

like generally a For loop in VB would be

For i = 1 To 10

Next

and i was making a vowel checker and declared "i" as a variable, and my outputs for the number of "i"'s in the string was always screwed up lol it was funny but yeah it gets frustrating from silly mistakes.

 

[jm1234567890]

you can't get that problem in java/C++

since you have to declare the variable in the for loop
eg

for(int i =0;i<50;i++){
  // do stuff
}

 

[-X-]

Originally posted by jm1234567890
you can't get that problem in java/C++

since you have to declare the variable in the for loop
eg

for(int i =0;i<50;i++){
  // do stuff
}

You dont have to declare the variable in the for loop.
e.g.

	int i = 0;
	for ( ; i < 5; i++)
              Do Stuff;

 

[jm1234567890]

or

  for ( ; ; );

but you usually do