easy school program

[powers]

"Create a program that determines which chess board fields are available to the queen from the field where it is located. The chessboard is presented as a matrix 8x8. Queen's position is entered from the keyboard into [word] [number]. And the result is saved in a string. "

So that my assignment, which i have not be able to do on my own, if someone with good heart can help me with it i will really appreciate it .


This is what i have did on my own but i dont know how to determinate which fields can the queen go to.
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <stdlib.h>


int main()
{
	
	int horizontal,vertical,k;
	char poz;
	
	printf("Enter the horizontal position of queen(A-H)\n");
	scanf("%s", &poz);
	
	if(poz=='A')
	{
		horizontal=1;
	}
	else if (poz=='B')
	{
		horizontal=2;
	}	
	else if (poz=='C')
	{
		horizontal=3;
	}
	else if (poz=='D')
	{
		horizontal=4;
	}	
	else if (poz=='E')
	{
		horizontal=5;
	}
	else if (poz=='F')
	{
		horizontal=6;
	}
	else if (poz=='G')
	{
		horizontal=7;
	}
	else if (poz=='H')
	{
		horizontal=8;
	}
	
	printf("Enter the vertical position of queen(1-8)\n");
	scanf("%d", vertical);


	
	
	int chess[8][8]={
	{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8},
	{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8},
	{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8},
	{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8},
	{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8},
	{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8},
	{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8},
	{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8},
	};


}

[Salem]

Cross-posted here -> Very easy begginer question - C++ Forum

[powers]

Is this not allowed?

[Salem]

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
Sure, you can post wherever you want.

But it comes with consequences.

One consequence being that people who help really don't like having their time wasted.
It is quite annoying (read: you'll be ignored) if people respond with an answer on one forum, only to discover that the same question has the same answer written by someone else on another forum.

Pretty soon, all the helpers on all the forums you visit will mentally tag you as a cross-poster, and either ignore you or deal with your question last.
Or just assume that someone somewhere has already answered.

You're getting a free service, so you might want to adopt an approach that doesn't alienate the helpers.

[powers]

I mean i did not asked the same things on both forums tho. I didnt wanted to spam the other forum with more questions so i just decided to try other forum for my next question.

[Click_here]

iostream is c++, not C

I'm still not sure what your assignment wants you to do - can you give us an example of how the user would use your programme?

[powers]

The user have to type cordinates on the board for the queen, and the program must return every field the queen can go to from these cordinates.

[catacombs]

powers, are you writing this program in C or C++?

[powers]

should be c

[cooper1200]

a couple of suggestions i....
you don't need two input headers if its supposed to be c get rid of iostream,h
second you need an array for the board with 64 individual numbers otherwise you wont be able to tell where the queen is i suggest 0 to 63 ie

int chessboard[8][8] = {0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,
                        8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,
                        16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,
                        24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,.......
                        ............60,61,62,63};

that way you can tell what square your queen is on and your answer gives unique results. You can also easily see where the edges of the board are ifor example if your vertical co-ordinate is 3 to get all the squares up and down the board you jst have to get the results of chessboard[0][3] chessboard[1][3] ..... chessboard[8][3].

coop

[Salem]

I take it you actually know how a queen moves on a chess board.

> The chessboard is presented as a matrix 8x8. Queen's position is entered from the keyboard into [word] [number]. And the result is saved in a string. "
What does that "result as a string" actually mean?

A chess board like this?

QXXXXXXX
XX......
X.X.....
X..X....
X...X...
X....X..
X.....X.
X......X

Or some list of coordinates like A1,A2,A3,A4,.....