is this what we should start with?

I got the idea from a source in the projects part of website so thought id try it on my own.

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main()
{
    int age;
    char name[3];
   
    printf( "Enter name of animal: " );
    scanf( "%s", name );
    if ( strcmp( name, "dog" ) == 0) {
        printf( "ok, its a dog\n");
        printf( "enter age: " );
        scanf( "%d", &age );
        age *= 7;
        printf( "your dog is %d in doggy years heh\n", age ); }
        else if (strcmp(name, "cat" ) == 0) {
              printf ( "ok its a cat\n" );
              printf ( "enter age: " );
              scanf( "%d", &age );
              age *= 7;
              printf( "your cat is %d in cat years\n", age); }
       
        getchar();
        getchar();
        return 0;
        }

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it works fine, is this the easiest way to right it or is there a different way?

but anyway, is this ok for my first tinyyyyyyy program?

reece.

Looks alright for a first try, the only thing is, you should try to avoid doing the same things in all cases. For instance getting the age and you multiply age by 7 for both cats and dogs. So you should just put that at the bottom as well as the string that outputs the name and years.

Code:

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age *= 7;
printf( "your %s is %d in %s years\n", name, age, name);

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You may have to knock the \n character that may or maynot be in your name string, otherwise you output could look like:

your cat
is 41 in cat
years

ok thanks for the tip. yeh i tried putting the age *= 7 at the top and bottom, middle everything and it wouldnt work for them both lol, didnt think of doing the

Code:

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printf( "your "%s" is "%d" is %s" years old\n" name, age, name );

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works fine when run though so im happy with it considering its my first try at something from a blank page :)

thanks. reece.

last thing, any ideas on a simple program like this that i shud try to do to get me going?

Code:

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printf( "your "%s" is "%d" is %s" years old\n" name, age, name );

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This is wrong, you don't close quotes for the identifiers in the string.

Code:

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printf( "your %s is %d is %s years old\n" name, age, name );

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Not to mention that it says "Your cat is 10 is cat years old" :p

bah, fixed it.

this works perfect.

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main()
{
    int age;
    char name[3];
   
    printf( "Enter name of animal: " );
    scanf( "%s", name );
    if ( strcmp( name, "dog" ) == 0) {
        printf( "ok, its a dog\n");
        printf( "enter age: " );
        scanf( "%d", &age );}
        else if (strcmp(name, "cat" ) == 0) {
              printf ( "ok its a cat\n" );
              printf ( "enter age: " );
              scanf( "%d", &age );}{
              age *= 7;
              printf("your %s is %d is %s years old\n", name, age, name );
        getchar();
        getchar();
        getchar();
        return 0;
}
}

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any ideas of other small programs to start with?

any u first tried?

Code:

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char name[3];

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Name needs at least four elements to accomadate the NULL terminator placed at the end of strings.
This program could also be compacted a little more:

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main()
{
    int age;
    char name[4];
   
    printf( "Enter name of animal: " );
    scanf( "%s", name );
    if (!strcmp(name, "dog") || !strcmp(name, "cat"))
  {
        printf( "ok, its a %s\n", name);
        printf( "enter age: " );
        scanf( "%d", &age );
        printf("your %s is %d years old which is %d in human years\n", name, age, age*7);
       
  }
  else
      printf("I've never heard of a %s\n", name);
             
    getchar();
    getchar();
    getchar();
     
        return 0;

}

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Next you could try to create a simple database program that asks the user to enter records and allows him get information for a record.

or you could make a blackjack program. i made one on my TI-83+, its not difficult when you dont have to worry about creating a GUI ;]

I once made a graphical blackjack program in MS Excel with VBA. :p

It was... not good, to say the least. It worked, though. :p

*claps for skymaelstrom*
feel better?

;)

ok ill try a database program, any chance youv got a small piece of code from one that i can check out? :-D or the tutorials for them?

depends on the type of database.

one where you enter a name, then last name and then age and it stores it. or you can look some up.

and even when uve closed it, if u re open the program u can search for what u entered.

?

First you would need to define the structure of each record for example

Code:

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typedef struct Record
{
  char FirstName[20];
  char LastName[20];
  int Age;
};

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It is best to split your program into seperate functions, you could create functions for loading (using fread() ), saving (using fwrite() )and searching (using strcmp/strcmpi to search by first or last name)

i was thinking like mysql, mssql, etc.