Harsh but true.

Excellent summary of the major programming languages. Has helped me a lot get an insight into the 3 languages Im doing next year; Java, C++ and VB.Net! Cheers mate.

So they can incorporate both Java and C++ in NetBeans IDE?

Thanks joeprogrammer, appreciated. Regarding NetBeans I think we may do a little Java also so that explains why its on the server.
Your suggestions for C++ will be where I start.

I feel your pain bro BUT with time and practise I find my coding gets quicker and more refined. The more tasks I complete the more pitfalls I learn to avoid!

Im starting a course next year which will cover a C++; I was wondering whats the best software to start coding in C++? I noticed my college use NetBeans which is an IDE which may be a start?

Any...

No problem mate!

Yes Ive found this to be the case also. Site speeds seems to be up and down of recent tho.

I had this same problem recently and discovered that in pascal there is a 'Val' function (with 3 parameters, 1st for the string, second for integer and third for error message if the 1st parameter is...

thanks for the reply, I'll look into making these changes!!!

Thanks guys!

Interesting..good thinking thanks.. but would that not still limit the answer to just being an integer tho?

Just trying to make my program user friendly...but I get the response 'Wrong' when I enter in a number or abcd when really I want my error message displayed when the user enters input like that and...

I dont know if Im far off with this, The user enters their name and I want them to only enter in a string so if they enter in a number Id like an error message, any ideas?


program Word;
uses...

This is the solution I came up with a few minutes ago....

program Word (input, output);
uses crt;
var
letter: string;
begin
{------------Introduction &...

Im using Free Pascal and thanks I hadnt noticed that.

There was another work around that I did with just setting the value as string as when a number is entered the program doesnt crash unlike...

hehe well unfortunately I dont have a choice at the moment, this year my course is using Pascal :(

Im failing to see what Ive done wrong, the syntax is right but the program wont run for me when I enter in a the else statement works tho....

program Word (input, output);
uses crt;
var
...

Seems theres a Val feature that basically converts strings into integers, Str does the opposite. Val in this example also has the third parameter as the error display.

program TriangleWait (input,...

I was doing some coding today and came across a problem someone else faced and I couldnt answer it for them. I'll explain the concept in the little program below....

Program between;
uses crt;...

Sure but its not going to be done for a while cos I have a big exam to study for and as I stated at the start my program already meets the project requirements so I'll just hand it in without the...

Yep thats great, I totally get it and I thank you again for your help!

Yes I fully understand now, thanks for your help mate!

I'll go away and try this.
edit
Im pretty sure Cycle is a mac extension but Continue does exactly the same and the main reason was to...

Arghhhhhhhh Im really stuck with this damn Random function...

Ive a rough idea that I would use the concept below...

program random;
uses crt;
var a,b, i:integer;
begin
clrscr;
randomize;

And also Ive done the create question program...really just the Random part being inserted Im stuck on...

PROGRAM CreateQuiz;
USES CRT;

TYPE
QuizType = STRING;
QuizFileType = FILE...

This what ive got so far with the questions in record form....



PROGRAM Quiz questions
USES CRT,DOS;

TYPE
QuizType = STRING;
QuizFileType = FILE OF QuizType;

So far Ive got this for the random section...hopefully assigning each element of the array within this will work...


program random;
uses crt;
var a,b, i:integer;
begin
clrscr;
randomize;...

Thanks kindly!

Thats a great idea, thanks. Really my problem is realising how to use the random function in pascal. I know you declare randomize near the start then use Random but have only seen examples using...

This looks a great site. Perfect for the likes of me, Im a recent student from Scotland to Software Development but hope to progress through the different languages.

At the moment I'm finishing...

I might as well post the whole program to assist anyone reading this.... also I forsee a problem with the later procedure where I append the file with user created questions....

Again thanks to...

So far as you can see below Ive got the program accessing the file and just reading the lines; Ive got the file set up like so...

What is the Answers?
A Do this
B Do that
C Dont do that
D...