Thread: I don't understand what this is asking!

I have a book here, and there are exercises after each chapter. In chapter two - which is basic data types, there is an exercise that tells me to do this:

Code:

Here's an exercise for you puzzle fans. Write a program that will 
prompt the user to enter two different positive integers. Identify in the
 output the value of the larger integer and the value of the smaller 
integer.

I have no idea what that is asking me to do. The book is - ivor Horton's Beginning ANSI C++: The complete Language.

Thanks fellas - I really just wasn't sure what it meant.

Originally Posted by 7stud

Hi,

I learned C++ from that book, and I suggest that you skip the section on Bitwise Operators in Chapter 3. It is too difficult for beginners, and I think it should be in an appendix.

If you need specific help with sections in that book, I should be able to help.

Thank you for the advice!

Originally Posted by jwenting

bitwise operators are an essential part of the language, if you don't understand them study harder.

Just because something isn't dead easy doesn't mean you're not supposed to know it.

I'm sure they are - but the problem is that the chapter gets very specific with binary code and hex values and I know next to nothing about binary and hex values and such... so it is VERY confusing to me. So I suppose once I get more comfortable with that sort of thing I'll re-visit it.

that's a shortcoming on the part of your teacher and/or study material then. They should have prepared you better.

That is 7stud's point when giving the advice, if you did not notice. The book, according to 7stud, does not prepare beginners well when introducing bitwise operators.

I think it assumes that you have knowledge of that sort. Though I suppose I understand what the bitwise operators do - I don't think that my understanding of hex, binary and the like will allow me to make much use of them. That is, until I learn about the stuff.