Beginner Problem

Alright, I'm a mechanical engineering student taking a mandatory C++ course and I am absolutely terrible at it. I currently need to write a program that I've been trying to write for a week and it's already late. I need to write a function for computing a moving average that is callable from main. If anyone can help me I'd really appreciate it.

did you read the tutorial on functions?

I have a basic understanding, and I'm able to write the moving average function, I just don't understand at all how to make one that is callable from another function.

well, what do you have so far?

Can you show us the math you're using to compute the moving average then I'll try to show you how to make it into a program.

This is what I have so far

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

const int N=1000;


int process_speed_data(const double x[N], int n);
int main()
{
        ifstream in;
        int count(0), data;
        double data[N], average[N];
        double sum_1(0), sum_2(0);

        in.open("sensor.dat");

        while (count < (N-1) && !in.eof())
        {
                in >> data[count];
                count++;
        }
        cout << main(data, count)
       
       
       
        //Set first 9 elements of averages array to 0.
        for( int i = 0; i < 9 ; i++ )
        {
        sum_1 += data[i];
                average[i] = sum_1 / (i+1) ;
        }
        //Record moving averages for the remaining elements.
        for( int i = 9; i<=count ; i++ )
        {
                sum_2 = 0;

                for( int j = i - 9; j <= i; j++)
                {                       
                        sum_2 += data[j];
                }
                average[i] = sum_2 / 10;
        }
       
       
        for( int i = 0; i < count; i++ )
        {
                cout << average[i]
        }

               

}

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EDIT: This code is choppy, the exact assignment is to make the reading and averaging of the data a callable function (process_speed_data) from a primary main function.

Code:

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cout << main(data, count)

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What are you trying to do here? Is this where you want to call the function?

I need to make a main function and have the filtering of the data occur in a second function which is called from main.

This one actually works, sorry about that other one

Code:

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#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>

using namespace std;

const int N=1000;


int main()
{
        ifstream in;
        int count(0), data;
        double prices[N], averages[N];
        double sum_1(0), sum_2(0);
       
       
        in.open("sensor.dat");

        while (count < (N-1) && !in.eof())
        {
                in >> prices[count];
                count++;

        }
       
       

        //Set first 19 elements of averages array to 0.
        for( int i = 0; i < 9 ; i++ )
        {
        sum_1 += prices[i];
                averages[i] = sum_1 / (i+1) ;
        }
       

        //Record moving avergaes for the remaining elements.
        for( int i = 9; i<=count ; i++ )
        {
                sum_2 = 0;
                for( int j = i - 9; j <= i; j++  )
                {                       
                        sum_2 += prices[j];
                }
                averages[i] = sum_2 / 10;
        }
       
       
        for( int i = 0; i < count; i++ ) {

                cout << i << " average = " << averages[i] << endl;
        }
}

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Code:

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// Stuff...
int Function( Parameters for calculating speed stuff )  // int Function( int stuff ) for example
{
  // Calculate speed stuff
  return speed stuff;
}

int main()
{
  //Read in the data
  cout << Function( Pass data needed to calculate speed stuff );  // Function( 32 ) for example
  return 0;
}

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That should give you the idea of using a function... :)

- SirCrono6

So basically, i should read the data out of the file in main into an array, then send that data to the function to be averaged.

Yes, I just skimmed your code to get the idea of what you were doing.

Thanks for the help, I'm going to try that, knowing my luck with this, I'll be back.

Haly crap, thanks for the help, I finally figured it out. You've managed to do in 5 seconds what my professor couldnt explain in the past 3 weeks. Thanks.