C++ Help

[President]

I'm confused, it's near the end of the semester and this is the problem you are getting? If it is, complain to your school for having a shit program. If it's not, and you are just starting a class, do yourself a favor and figure it out yourself. It's going to be a long class if you can't write that shit down on paper perfectly in less than an hour.

[Rogean]

Originally Posted by Ihealyou [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

amount &= 25
amount &= 10

You mean %= ?

&= is bitwise assignment.

[Rogean]

Also looking at the way the teacher has given examples of how to do this, I bet you if you try to complicate this up in more efficient ways, hes going to fail you "Not demonstrating what you've learned" which is basically another way of saying you're smarter than him.

[naez]

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Also looking at the way the teacher has given examples of how to do this, I bet you if you try to complicate this up in more efficient ways, hes going to fail you "Not demonstrating what you've learned" which is basically another way of saying you're smarter than him.

tru.dat, when I took python1 I would do fancy pythony things and the professor would always rage and mark me down for really silly things. I ended up with a C in the class and the hardest program we did was like temperature conversions

[bman8810]

Originally Posted by naez [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

tru.dat, when I took python1 I would do fancy pythony things and the professor would always rage and mark me down for really silly things. I ended up with a C in the class and the hardest program we did was like temperature conversions

Part of getting a good grade in the class is understanding what the professor wants. Should I have to dumb down my homework assignments in order to acquiesce with what the professor wants? No. Do I? Yes, if I want a good grade.

If you aren't sure whether the professor will accept your more advanced version, you need to discuss it with him. Otherwise, man up and don't complain. Most professors are pretty understanding. However, don't expect much leniency if the entire class does something one way and you do it another way and lose credit. That shit is a pain in the ass to grade.

[naez]

O I wasn't complaining, by the end I was doing random ass spaghetti (which is really hard to do in python) just to piss him off. I won the passive-aggressive rage war we had.

[Zereh]

Being creative isn't really encouraged in college. They are not there to teach you to think, they are there to hone your memory recall and information retention / regurgitation skills. So whatever a teaching assistant (or if you're lucky, a professor) crams down your throat is what they want handed back to them.

[Ihealyou]

Originally Posted by Rogean [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You mean %= ?

&= is bitwise assignment.

Lol, I didn't even realize I wrote &= until you said that. In my defense, it was on my phone and % and & are both tall and squiggly, so they're basically the same thing anyways.

[Jburks8]

Thanks everyone for your feedback!

It's an intro to computer science class (I took it in place of a science class). My teacher definitely would probably become suspicious if I used more advanced /efficient ways to solve the problem, so that is definitely not an option, but I think I can get by doing what he considers "correct".

I like what you did Ihealyou, and that makes more sense to me, so I might run with that.

Again, thanks for everyone's feedback/advice. Sorry to post homework questions on a P1999 site [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Rogean]

Originally Posted by Ihealyou [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Lol, I didn't even realize I wrote &= until you said that. In my defense, it was on my phone and % and & are both tall and squiggly, so they're basically the same thing anyways.

Under normal circumstances I'd agree.. but it's typos just like that that make you spend a fucking hour trying to figure out why your program isn't working correctly, debugging the shit out of it... and then it hits you in the face like a brick and you proceed to facepalm for 5 minutes.

Too many times that happens to me. Infact I spent over an hour just last night trying to figure out why some code was acting wonky and its because I did a delete on a char pointer instead of delete[], in a completely different function.