Well here is a programme I neeed some help with.if I can get guidelines on how to go about tackling Write a program to check the syntax of a C++ program. You must count the number of braces {} and parenthesis () in the program. The number of left braces must match the number of right braces in the program for the syntax to be correct. The same holds for the left and right brackets. You must use random access(binary) files to read the program. The name of the C++ program must be passed in on the command line.
Extend your program to also check if the brackets match, and are correctly nested. For example
• {}(){()} is valid
• }}{{ is not valid
a vector may be useful for this task, using push_back and pop_back
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Tekmaven forgot that common sense is uncommon in this world ... especially in the electronics world:mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

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Thanks for register me for a member.

I don't understand how to read a tape.

I agree, but sometimes the only way is to shown how to. So unless the author really knows everything, a little tolerance would seem to be in order. A example is posting in the (cnet) Help forums about supposedly being required to buy books and/or cds which isn't true. Look before you leap, and yes as I previously noted I agree that some push the limits.

The homework problem can be an issue if you let it. Students should NOT just talk to us and get an A. I think that if you give snippets of code rather than full projects out to people they will be happy and they will still need to think. I left another site because of too many guidelines. They were VERY strict about what to post and not what to post. In a free market economy the producer tries to make their product the most appealing to the public. If this site is used as a homework help site, then more students would use it and reccomend it to friends. This way your site could earn more money, get more posts, and be of more use to others.

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The problem with that is that many kids will continue to scream and rant until someone indeed does their entire assignment for them...

I've seen this in action many times here and (to a greater degree) elsewhere.

If someone shows a willingness to learn I'll be the last to deny them some help, but the problem with ever more kids is that they don't want to put in any effort themselves. Many would rather spend money to get a ready made solution than spend 5 minutes away from their playstations, it's getting that bad.

When we let kids with such attitudes get degrees and enter the marketplace as our potential colleagues, sooner or later we end up with them on a team and have to work overtime to cover for their incompetence and laziness until such a time as we can get it into the heads of management that these people are useless (and then how's the company going to get rid of them?).

By refusing them their easy grades, we help ourselves by removing them from the pool of available workers in the future.
Those of them who are intelligent enough to see the error in their ways will correct themselves and start to work, the rest we can only hope will fail their education and be reduced to unskilled labour where their attitude won't harm us.

If this sounds harsh, it's intended to. I've seen the damage lazy, unskilled people with degrees they shouldn't have (and in many cases indeed didn't have, but had acquired or faked through fraud) can do to a company and a project team.

I suggest you get a good tutorial on the subject, and if you wan't to continue, you should get a good book.

Sometimes you try and you try but you can only see what has gone wrong when someone else points out your mistakes. Being a mature student of computing and a qualified primary teacher I find it disheartening to find so many people with such a poor view of students, i find that through life the best way to learn is through example and i hope that should i need advice that the best intentions would be returned in my favour. Some people just can't see the wood for the trees.

The problem is that in real life (as opposed to school) mistakes can cost you much more than bad grades. Realizing that we have to learn from mistakes, a teacher should point out that it is better to learn from other people´s mistakes rather than suffering the consequesnces of your own...