Thread: Need help with my first program

hi everyone, im very new to programing, and i just made my first program/ game... if you could call it that...called pick a number, reeeeeaaalllyyy simple, at first it ran, then i tired to make it a lil more complicated, and now it wont run,

can some one help me out. and tell me wwhat i didd wrong,

here's the code

Code:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    int thisisanumber;
    
    cout<<"hello! where going to play a game, if you win your cool... if you lose.... well then you suck Pick a number from 1-10: ";
    cin>> thisisanumber;
    cin.ignore();
    if ( thisisanumber == 36) {
         cout<<"Yo your cool, Congratz\n";
         }
         if ( thisisanumber <= 101)  {
              cout<<"I Said 1 through 100, Try again"; // if a person types over 100
              {
         if ( thisisanumber <= 37) {
              cout<<" Your to High TAKE IT DOWN A NOTCH"; // is a persons answer is too high
              }
         if ( thisisanumber >= 35) {
              cout<<" Your To Low, go up up up."; // if a persons answer is too low
              }
    cin.get();
} // this is were it syad the problem is

Try this....

Code:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    int thisisanumber;
    
    cout<<"hello! where going to play a game, if you win your cool... if you lose.... well then you suck Pick a number from 1-10: ";
    cin>> thisisanumber;
    cin.ignore();
    if ( thisisanumber == 36) {
         cout<<"Yo your cool, Congratz\n";
         }
         if ( thisisanumber <= 101)  {
              cout<<"I Said 1 through 100, Try again"; // if a person types over 100
              {
         if ( thisisanumber <= 37) {
              cout<<" Your to High TAKE IT DOWN A NOTCH"; // is a persons answer is too high
              }
         if ( thisisanumber >= 35) {
              cout<<" Your To Low, go up up up."; // if a persons answer is too low
              }
    cin.get();
} // this is were it syad the problem is
}
}

thx... but why didn't it run becuase of that?

Technically, it didn't compile. Anyway, any opening brace (like a curly bracket or parenthesis) needs a closing brace. You're program didn't have that initially.

You put an opening brace where you wanted a closing one.

Code:

if ( thisisanumber <= 101)  {
              cout<<"I Said 1 through 100, Try again"; // if a person types over 100
              {

you could make the game even more challenging, by producing a random number for the player to guess. Here is one I made for a college course ages ago:

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <ctime>	// creates a truer random number

using std::cout;
using std::endl;
using std::cin;

// driver -- main function /////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//

int main ( void )
{
    int guess;            // player guess
    int tries = 0;	// smount of guesses
 		
   srand(time(0));	// seed number
 		
   int num = rand() % 100 + 1;	// create number between 1 and 100
 		
   do
   {
        cout << "Guess my number: ";
        cin >> guess;
		 	
        tries++;
		 	
       if ( guess < num )
      {
           cout << "\nTOO LOW" << endl;
      }
		  
      if ( guess > num )
      {
          cout << "\nTOO HIGH" << endl;
      }
			
    } while ( guess != num );
    
    cout << "\n\nWELL DONE! SPOT ON! It took " << tries << " attempts!" << endl;

    cin.ignore();
    getchar();
    
    return 0;
}

Code:

cout<<"hello! where going to play a game, if you win your cool... if you lose.... well then you suck Pick a number from 1-10: ";

This game cheats with 36 :P

yeha the 1-10 thingy is a typo.

and i wanted to make it random, but i wasn't sure how to just yet, im still kinda in the tutorial stages but i learn better if i try to put what i learn to use immediatly


thx to all tho

If you look at my example, it shows you the basics of random number syntax

And here's some of the not so basic things about rand.