Thread: Final Project for HS, any ideas?

Hey, Im a rookie programmer taking my second year programming class in High School (I got to a small private High School in Conneticut). My final project is what ever I want, but I need some ideas.

Here are the guide lines that my TA pulld of the internet and told us to use:


1. Use a class
-Must have class functions
-Must have a default constructer

2. Must use 1 recursive function

3. Must have input/output
-Printer optional, but preferred

4. Bonus for using pointers


Seems simple right? ha not really as Im a transfer student, but I think that I should be able to do it, but Im definetly going to have to go for something simple as I have NO idea how to use classes!

My initial idea was to make a random # generator, but my friend already has used that idea.

btw this is the code I am using for my (simple recursive function) which I tippd from my TA's notes

Code:

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

void recurse ( int count ) // Each call gets its own count
{
  cout<< count <<"\n";
  // It is not necessary to increment count sinceeach function's
  //  variables are separate (so each count will be initialized one greater)
  recurse ( count + 1 );
}

int main()
{
  recurse ( 1 ); //First function call, so it starts at one        
}

trying to K.I.S.S., and we havent done any visual so i Really cant do any games or anything that needs a GUI

..so any ideas on what I should do?

Does the program have to have some practical or unified purpose, or does it just have to do all of the criteria without necessarily being related to one another?

Originally Posted by indigo0086

Does the program have to have some practical or unified purpose, or does it just have to do all of the criteria without necessarily being related to one another?

Even if it does have to work together, I'm surprised that the techer hasn't had problems with this project. There are some really lazy solutions that fulfill the criteria.

Yeah, a simple "power class"would do, that gets a number through a function, gets the exponential, prints it, etc. Seems more like an example more than a project.

cool to seem that people are trying to help

anyway I havent been living ConneCticut THAT long hence the mistake

secondly I go a private school yes, but NOT a prep school. HUGE difference as our school is full of lazy teachers and we have a small budget, but we are still better off then the awful public schools in the area..

as far as the project goes I like the idea of linked lists, and I talked to it to my friend who is very proefficient in C++ and I think I will do that. Im going to look over some articles now on classes because I missed the 'lessons' on that. About linked lists though:

I am reading though this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_lists

but since linked lists are data structures and their nodes contain..data, how would I use this for a project, as in what purpose would that have if the list did not have a program to support?

Thanks for the help, Ill post back later if I have any issues

ok well as far as the class goes. make your class variables private, then make class functions to edit the class. use a default constructor to add data to instances of yoru class on startup.

ie, you could make the class make 2 or 3 instances of its self with 1 variable each. the default constructor could have 1 variable that is automaticaly set to 1 via the contructor. then you could print the values out, and ask the user if they want to change any values. if they do, let them change one via the function in the class of the instance of thier choosing. after they enter a new number, print the numbers on the screen again. the recursive function could be one that actualy sets the constructors. give it a static variable set to 0, make the instance of the function an array, and incriment the static variable at the end of hte function before it calls its self again. but make it call its self in an if statement so you only make a few instances.

when you're done, write teh values to a file, and tell the user what the file name is to open if they choose to print the numbers out.

ta da.

OO my god man make a sudoku solver the hardest assiment at my second year of high school pretty hard and u need some struct and everything lol and recursive funxtion can be pretty usefull.