Posts by jephthah

is this one of the universities that forces their students to program in Turbo C++?

point. so i mean, does it do it print that end message twice, from the parent and the child? or just once? (or none?)

i don't have the answer, i'm just trying to narrow down possibilities.

for all daniweb here hows your day today are you ok or not?

no i'm not ok.

what should i do?

where is this template coming from? are we turning into a singles website?

IrfanView is an extremely popular freeware image manipulation tool. (but not open source, my mistake)

i particularly love it because it has a really great command line interface and non-lossy JPG rotation. it's really good for calling in your own applications. if you do any image manipulation, especially in a batch mode, this is a must-have

anyhow, you have the same name as the developer. that is all. :)

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I have a sneaky suspicion that, after a posting or two, everyone would know it was you ;-)

aw, that's the nicest thing anyone's ever said!

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i thought it was more fun to use it as an example of why we need to close threads after "x" number of months of inactivity.

does it print "program done" and return 0?

Narue, you are amazing.

you think that's good, stick around.... she comes up with real some stunners.

okay. thanks.

so, what's your point?

trying to drum up business for your fledgling website? or just to get a few more hits on your google ads?

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/webmonkeys/book/c_guide/index.html
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/clibrary/

as you can see, atof() is part of the <stdlib.h>.

in C++ this library is called <cstdlib>

This is easily found with a minimum amount googling. its not that we dont want to help, but there's a sort of a minumum level of competence assumed that people can do basic things on their own.

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i thought this thread was about ACT-UP

then you need to set your compiler to be more strict with the warnings.

ok i'll use another way to program it even if he did not discuss it like the stdlib.h

<stdio.h> which you already use, is the STanDard Input and Output library header. it's a "standard", you see....

<stdlib.h> is the STanDard LIBrary. it's also "standard". Its the default library for darn near every C program in the world. So don't be scared. the fact that your professor is withholding it from you like it's some big secret, is even more evidence suggesting his incompetence.

<conio.h> is CONsole Input and Output. It's not standard, it's obsolete. you avoid it like the plague. or don't, and get the plague. doesn't matter to me, i won't ever have to work with you.

is there any site u recommend to download Turbo C that is safe, without any virus? please.
thanks. God bless the wise!

no, i refuse to do so on the grounds that it will violate my principles. and god forbid you go find it yourself.

unix/linux represents a newline character ('\n') as 0x0A, called a LF (line feed) and windows represents a newline character ('\n') as 0x0D 0x0A called a CR LF (carriage return line feed). your professor's file is the unix case.

if, when writing programs in unix, you want your newlines to look like windows newlines, you can write them as '\r\n' to give the CR LF. be careful running this on windows, becasue it will give you CR CR LF (0x0D 0x0D 0x0A)..... and let's not even get started on Macs.

this whole incompatibility issue is historic, and there's a huge explanation about the whys and wherefores if you care to read about it. most text editors can deal with the various formats. Windows Notepad can not. So just be aware of this fact. I avoid using Notepad.

be advised, this whole issue can be a pain in the ass if you let it. just understand and accept the way it is, and don't stress about it.

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Second, what teacher is going to go to a forum to hear random people whine and flame?

because.... they have so much free time on their hands, since they're not researching new teaching methods or current industry trends?

eh, yeah ... okay ... i got nothing.

well, is SURE IS A GOOD THING we keep threads open indefinitely.

because if we closed them after a period of inactivity, we'd miss gems like this.

you'll probably get better responses if you post your C++ code in the C++ forum.

this is a classic error. the macro just replaces the code in the program with your #define'd value verbatim. therefore, it's calculating according to the order of operation: 225 / 15 * 15 , which is 225.

change your #define to

#define SQR(x)     (x * x)

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We used Turbo C in our programming and we need to do our project using Turbo C only.

That's a lie. Your instructor is an incompetent dolt. If he says otherwise, send him here.

Do everyone a favor, especially yourself, and use a modern development environment such as code::blocks with the MinGW compiler.

anything you build using a modern compiler that complies with the C standard (such as the link above) , will work on your instructor's retarded choice of a 20-year-old dried turd of a compiler. the reverse is NOT true, however, so don't waste your time building garbage on a decrepit toy.

do it right.

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there's no reason why you should be afraid of <stdlib.h>. it won't bite you. you should not use <conio.h> that library has been obsolete for 20 years. most modern compilers do not use it.

as to "how to randomize", here's the simple answer: if you want a random number from 1 to 'n',

int number;
number = rand() % n + 1;

there some are problems with this method, but you don't need to worry about them for now.

one thing, this will generate the same sequence of "random" numbers each time you run the program. if you want a different sequence of random numbers each time the program is run, you'll need to "seed" the number generator, using "srand"

const means constant.

that it won't be changed anywhere within the scope where it is implemented.

if a function takes, for example, a pointer to a "const char" argument, you know you can pass in a string to that argument and your string will not be modified by the function.

I am give you algorithm to find the factorial of given no. Try your self.
1. Intialize variable no,fact=1,ans
2. Get value of no from user.
3. Do while(no>=fact)
4. Take answer in ans variable
5. Display ans

huh?? what does this most incoherent mess of pseudo-code mean? this is garbage.

wow, i could change my name and my picture and i would be like a completely new person that no one would know who i am!

well, don't everyone start pushing at once.

cause tonight we're gonna party like it's 1999.

can i change my name, too?

welcome!

im sure you've found the Java forum already, it's quite an active place.

good luck in your studies!

welcome. sounds like you're in for a lot of work. VB and C# all at the same time. personally, i'd drop the VB class and pick up something more useful, like Classic Hellenic Literature, but hey that's me :)

finally joined, huh? well, what took you so long? :)

welcome!

welcome. i think you'll do well. i see you've already found the place where you add links to your signature.

great plan! welcome have fun and learn. stay long enough you just may move on to helping others, too

welcome!

a certificate is better than no certificate, and can easily be what gets you the job rather than someone else. many jobs require it as a minimum, anyhow.

good luck, holla in the forums for advice.

welcome! i vaguely remember the days of 300 baud. and programs on magnetic tape.

welcome to daniweb, mark

welcome Irfan.

do you know that you have a famous name for open source graphics development.

you're in the right place so ask away! in the proper forum, of course :)

welcome

welcome to match dot com

Write a C program to find the factorial of a number using do while loop?

well, yes. yes, i can. thank you! :)

i never understood it either, as the more obscure commands in the C pre-processor are beyond the scope of my typical work.

that said, a good overview of the C pre-processor and descriptions of all the commands in the processing language can be found at http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/index.html#Top .. line control has its own section

@urbangeek :

1) don't post full code solutions to poster's questions.

2) DEFINITELY dont post broken code to a poster's question

3) if you've got problems, take them to a new thread of your own creatioon. Don't confuse a poster by cluttering up their question with your problems.

in short, if you don't know what you're doing, stop helping. ask and learn all you want in your own threads.

redtube

oh, wait. what?

we'll be a couple rockin' dudes, then.

ch- ch- check it out now

when i was a child, i used to watch the re-runs of a US sitcom called "Laverne and Shirley".

it was about these two women who were roomates and coworkers at a beer-bottling plant, and their antics and adventures with their bluecollar friends in their urban Milwaukee neighborhood. Laverne was the dominant personality, Shirley still slept with her childhood stuffed animal named "Boo Boo Kitty."

So anyhow, in the beginning of every show, the theme song would play while showing comic clips from various episodes. There was always this one scene I really enjoyed, where Laverne put one of Shirley's work gloves on the bottling conveyor line and Shirley was first upset, but then became resigned as she realized there was nothing she could do but watch it disappear into the distance. More on this in a moment.

Now the one thing that always confused me was this little chant that started the lyrics to the theme song it went something like this:

Shlmeel, Shlmazel, Fasenfeffer incorporated.

Now i never knew what the hell any that meant. What's a shlmeel? What's a shlmazel? What on earth is a Fassenfeffer? My mom didnt know either. We sheepishly suggested they maybe weren't even real words, but we were thinking that surely it was our knowledge that is at fault, because SOMEBODY knows what those words meant, SOMEWHERE.

Now I'm considering your functions, "shmat" and "shmget", and once again I'm asking "what the hell is this?" The old …

well, the main problem is, your math doesn't make any sense, at least not to any conventional system of grading percentages. but let's try and fix this as best we can...

percentage=(marks/1100)*100;

besides begging the obvious question "why are you doing this?" .... even if this is really what you want to do, it won't work right. Let's start with the part that doesn't work:

(marks/1100), both parts of this are integers. assuming your "marks" is a percentage value of roughly 100 or less, this equation will always evaluate as zero. How so? Okay, say marks=100. 100/1100 = 0. Because they're evaluated as "int". Division of integers always drops any fractional part, and only looks at the whole number. the rest of the equation is now meaningless, because 0 * 100 is still zero. your "percentage" of 0 is converted (correctly) as "F"

when you divide integers in an equation that needs to be evaluated as a float, you need to cast the integer as a float. so, to be evaluated properly, your equation would look like this:

percentage=((float)marks/1100)*100;

Now it "works", but it still doesnt make sense. Using the same example, marks=100, this now evaluates as (float)marks/1100 = 0.0909 . you can muliply this by the rest of the equation, so that you get a non-zero answer. 0.0909 * 100 = 9.0909. well, guess what, 9.09 is still an "F" ... that's why im saying your entire equation doesn't make sense.

welcome. hope you find what you need. go holler in the forum(s) of your choice, im sure you'll find a lot to keep busy with if you want it.

well.... rock on!

hey, three posts, and one solved thread... keep that ratio up and you'll be a star!