Loops

Hello. My teacher just started teaching us loops friday. Yay! Not really, that was me being sacarcastically happy. He cannot teach and I am not good at this so we do not make a good combination. D: Yeah..... I was wondering if anyone could help me get started.... Sorry and thanks.


This is our first assignment (Still have 6 more, each one harder than the last.).....

**** Write a password program. The user enters a String, and cannot continue with the program until they correctly get the password *******

“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”

Originally Posted by Rag

He cannot teach and I am not good at this so we do not make a good combination.

Actually; you make a perfect combination.

I can't comprehend how you can comment on your teacher's incompetence without being familiar with the stuff yourself.

Seriously, nobody is going to do your homework for you. Read the Rules first.

Please, tell me how we make a perfect combination?
And what do you mean? I cant say my teacher is incompetent? I have gone to the guy many times, given up many lunches, and still he has not helped me understand what we are doing, he once told my class "No sane teacher would have you do this with as little skills as I have given you."
AND i have read the rules, I was not asking for anyone to do. Just asking for tips on how to get started with it. Sorry if I said it wrong. And sorry if I am percieved as rude or as an idiot in any way.

Originally Posted by Rag

Please, tell me how we make a perfect combination?
And what do you mean? I cant say my teacher is incompetent? I have gone to the guy many times, given up many lunches, and still he has not helped me understand what we are doing, he once told my class "No sane teacher would have you do this with as little skills as I have given you."
AND i have read the rules, I was not asking for anyone to do. Just asking for tips on how to get started with it. Sorry if I said it wrong. And sorry if I am percieved as rude or as an idiot in any way.

Then learn the concepts on your own instead of being lazy . It is a matter of commonsense, not Rocket Science, to figure out how loops work.

As for your current program, first think of how you'd have done it by hand..i.e you were accepting the passwords from someone.... and you'll find that you've understood what loops are.

Also start reading Cprogramming.com: How to Get Started with C++

He cannot teach and I am not good at this

Two facts that are undoubtedly related

Write a password program. The user enters a String, and cannot continue with the program until they correctly get the password

Do you really not know how to do this?

This is beyond simple... get string from keyboard, compare string to password, exit if they don't match...

I am not trying to be lazy, if I was I would not have spent the last 30 minutes looking over the web for tutorials ---- And I know it isnt rocket science to you but i SUCK at dev c++ so it feels like it to me D:

Okay and thanks.

And will do.

Come on, people, do we need to pick on this poor guy/gal who needs help?
First, Rag, can you show what you've accomplished so far so that we can understand what you know and don't, and what exactly you are having trouble with.
Is it syntax? Is it the logic, or the idea behind loops?

Tater, stop this nonsense. Instead of being rude and offensive, start trying to help instead.
And just for reference, I reported that post.

ok, so you already know the steps that the program must accomplish:

1. ask the user for input
2. if input is equal to the password, continue. else return to step 1

now you just need to translate those steps into C++ code.

the tutorials on this site should help you with that.

Originally Posted by Elkvis

ok, so you already know the steps that the program must accomplish:

1. ask the user for input
2. if input is equal to the password, continue. else return to step 1

now you just need to translate those steps into C++ code.

the tutorials on this site should help you with that.

I think you just provided an easy incentive to use goto, instead of loops.
<Though I'd admit that I learnt it in that way too, before I found out the wonderful loops, it is possibly the way the brain analyzes the problem>

Thanks Elysia. I do not quite understand why I find it confusing. My teacher only showed us one example during class and it did not have to do with string. And i havent been looking for examples of what i was assigned, I was looking for tutorials to learn how to do loops. And all of them were int.

This is the one he showed us:

Code:

#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
//x++, x+=, x-=
        int x=0, grade=0, total=0;
               while (x <= 30)    
        {
               cout<<x<<endl;
               x+=3;
       }
       /*while (true)
       {
                   if(x % 3 ==0)
                        cout<<x<<endl;
       x++;
       }*/
       
    system("PAUSE");
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

Do you understand this part?

Code:

while (x <= 30)
{
               cout<<x<<endl;
               x+=3;
       }

Code:

while (x<=30) // saying while x is less then or equal to 30
{
cout<<x<<endl; // if x is equal to or less than 30
x+=3; // x= x+1

But i think my answer is wrong because it lists the multiplies of 3....

Originally Posted by Elysia

Tater, stop this nonsense. Instead of being rude and offensive, start trying to help instead.
And just for reference, I reported that post.

Sometimes the best lessons are the least comfortable ones.
Programming is not an area of expertise where one can "loaf along" and be good at it, it requires a certain analytical mindset... and you don't get that from Google.

Offending post removed.

Originally Posted by Rag

Code:

while (x<=30) // saying while x is less then or equal to 30
{
cout<<x<<endl; // if x is equal to or less than 30
x+=3; // x= x+1

But i think my answer is wrong because it lists the multiplies of 3....

Yes, you're indeed somewhat wrong.
while(x<=30) says that the following block will keep executing repeatedly until that condition becomes false.
and x+=3 //==> x = x + 3