Help with programs

**nesagsar** · 12-04-2006

I will.

**swgh** · 12-04-2006

For the second one you could use nested for loops.
Or do it the simpler way and use a load of cout statements

**nesagsar** · 12-04-2006

for program number 2 what I need to do is ask for the number of asterisks in the bow tie and save that to a variable. Then take that variable and print out a bow tie looking thingamabob.

Sort of like this.

assuming 17 asterisks

* *
** **
*****
** **
* *

**nesagsar** · 12-04-2006

lets try that again.

assuming 17 asterisks

*_____*
**___**
***_***
**___**
*_____*

**Mario F.** · 12-04-2006

Code... Show us code. We are remarkably incapable of solving problems. We are programmers, after all. We need code.

**swgh** · 12-04-2006

Well in that case create a variable to hold the value then use that value in a loop condtion to create the image you need.

example

Code:

cout << "How many stars: ";
cin >> stars;

for ( int i = 1; i < stars; i++ )
   cout << '*';

**nesagsar** · 12-04-2006

BTW, I absolutly suck at math and have avoided it so far in my classes so please dont assume that I understand all of the jargon. I understand that I should probably go out and learn it but I have a right to be lazy and darnit I exercise my rights. If you could try to help me without confusing me that would be great, all of the other message boards I have tried have jargoned me to the point that they started calling me a hopeless n00b.

Also the sort and search program is supposed to use something called bubble sort and binary search. I dont know what those are really.

**nesagsar** · 12-04-2006

Oops, that wasent directed at you swgh, just bad timing on the post.

**nesagsar** · 12-04-2006

By the way, would it be a problem if I am using 2 different compilers to write my programs?

**indigo0086** · 12-04-2006

If you know how to count then it shouldn't be hard. The number of spaces decreases while the number of stars increase, when it gets to the middle it does the opposite. It's

Google either Bubble sort and binary seach, if you're no good in math ignore the O(logN) and O(N^2) etc but I don't see how you can use those without understanding basic concepts that slip your grasp.

What's the name of the course BTW. If it has a I in its title you should kidnap your teacher's dog to teach him a lesson

**swgh** · 12-04-2006

By the way, would it be a problem if I am using 2 different compilers to write my programs?

Not really but you should stick to one that you are happy with and avoid switching over
unless needs arise. Bubble sort uses arrays to acheive the results. Other mehods for sorting are vectors, interators and algorithms. I advise you look up all you can on your problems too. Try buying a decent beginners book, check out the recomendations on this site for the ones to get.

**swgh** · 12-04-2006

What's the name of the course BTW. If it has a I in its title you should kidnap your teacher's dog to teach him a lesson

I dont get that indigo

**indigo0086** · 12-04-2006

If it's an introductory programming course, I don't think he should be asking you to use anything but library implementations of bubble sort and binary search. In other words, is your teacher asking you to re-create these algorithms or just use the algorithm library. If not then kidnap his dog, gain leverage.