program for a printere queue. Linked list implementation help.

[vlad_i]

Ok so i have a program that reads in data from a file. The file has the time someone sends a a file to a printer to be printed and the amount of pages.

I understand I have to use queues to organize data and add it in. my question is how exactly do I start with reading in the file data. Do I read it into a linked list, then fill the queue from there? Or do I read the file and put in into a queue directly. I am a little stuck and confused;/ Thanks for the help

[quzah]

All good questions. How about writing out in words what to do first before turning it into code or pseudo-code. Take this fine example of tic tac toe:

make a board
make x player and o player
decide active player
each turn do this
    show board
    ask for a move and make sure it's good
    do move for player
    exit if they won otherwise switch players

There. There's how you play tic-tac-toe, in words, without any functions that actually do anything. Now I can break each step into smaller or more detailed steps of what they need to do. You should do something similar, so you understand what your program should be doing. Then start thinking about actually turning it into code.


Quzah.