Thread: guessing game

hey all, i just have a question about this guessing game code on the site. What exactly is the point of using else to tell the person there wrong and have "you guess to low/high" on there?...There really both just telling you that your wrong

Code:

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <iostream.h>

int main()
{
int number=rand()%100; 
int
guess=-1;
int trycount=0;
while(guess!=number && trycount<8)
{
cout<<"Please enter a guess: ";
cin>>guess;
if(guess<number)
cout<<"Too low"<<endl;
if(guess>number) cout<<"Too high"<<endl;
trycount++;
}
if(guess==number)
cout<<"You guessed the
number";
else
cout<<"Sorry, the number was:
"<<number;
return 0;
}

Make a flow chart of the program. I believe they're telling you "Too low/high" while you you're still in the guessing phase of the game. When you run out of guess is when they'll tell you that you guessed wrong.

The too-high too-low are intermediate results reported inside the while loop. You only get to the else condition after you fail to guess correctly 8 times, then exit the loop (without guessing correctly).

The logic is a bit screwy, because you test for the correct guess inside the loop and again after exiting the loop. (It's generally a bad idea to test the same thing twice.)

Oh... I see sean_mackrory already answered...