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Hi, I'm a newbie.
I need a program that store differents characteristics of a 'most wanted criminals' (name, criminal profile (type of crimes), photo, etc), store them on a binary file and then perform searches based upon different parameters. The program should save on disk the data of some criminals and show the result on three type of searches.
Where can I start?
Code:#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main(void)
{
cout << "Hello world" << endl;
return 0;
}
Are you proficient in any programming language(s) such as C or C++? If not, first thing is to get a good C++ book (Accelerated C++ comes highly recommended by members of this board). Then download free tools from microsoft, or some other provider of C++ development tools, depending on what OS you're using. Once you've made it all the way through the book at least once, and feel like you have a good understanding of C++, you can do a google search for embedded databases. Microsoft has one that comes with its development tools, and there are a few others that are free and very good for the task you describe.
I started doing a Master in Science in Computer.
The teacher asked to not use Visual Studio because it generates additional files.
In the past I've programmed fairly briefly in Java, I used also Visual Basic, and years ago I programmed some in C++ but I'm not fairly confident in programming without looking for help.
In need this program to be handed in 2 weeks' time, I'm reading, having trouble using the iostream and fstream libraries in both Code:Blocks and DevC++, it says:
iostream: No such file or directory
Not sure what I'm doing wrong.
Well, all IDEs will generate "additional files", because those are needed for the value added aspect of these IDEs (i.e., things like build scripts are managed for you).
Are you saying that you got this error message with rags_to_riches' example?
XtC10,
I like cygwin and a nice text editor, I mean, when I don't have a Linux box handy of course. You'll need to make sure that the development libraries are installed too, but that's how admins end up getting started.... There aren't many additional files generated by those utilities.
DevC++ has never produced such an error for me, what settings did you use when you created the project which, upon compilation, produced those errors? The compiler should be able to locate those inclusions from it's default directories as implied by the '<' and '>'....
Best Regards,
New Ink -- Henry
I was using Code::Blocks and it didnt worked neither, but I read somewhere you need to save the project as a .cc file instead of a .c, so that did the trick.
Anyways I dont like C++, I like Java better, I picked computer science but I don't know If i like it, i hate programming and never had been good at it (Except maybe Visual Basic), this Data Structures programming makes me sick, I might change to IT. I though it was the same stuff.
If that's the case, then,
- If you're going to use C++, use a .cpp extension. Otherwise you should have posted in the appropriate board.
- You're probably going to have a hard time doing this if you hate programming.
Once again, elysia is spot on. CS is really about software engineering and development. if you don't like programming, then CS is probably not the right major for you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Elysia
Yes, indeed guys.
I've always been 'good' with computers, repairing, formatting, using software etc, but I have never liked programming.
I'm thinking on switching to IT.
Thank you guys.