----------------------------------- oanh_goose Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:05 am how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- Write these functions min (a,b,c: int) :int % takes in 3 integers and returns the smallest maxletter (s: string) :char % takes in a string and returns the letter with the highest letter of the alphabet arithmetic_series (a,d,n : int) : int % takes in the first term(a), the common difference(d) and the number of terms(n) for an arithmetic series and outputs the total P/S: help me.... im in grade 11 and i hv to write those in turing ----------------------------------- Insectoid Mon Oct 24, 2011 9:51 am RE:how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- Exactly what are you having trouble with? Have you tried solving these yourself? ----------------------------------- Beastinonyou Mon Oct 24, 2011 2:44 pm Re: how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- Before anybody is going to help you solve these problems, You should post some of the Code you already have, and we can help figure out why it doesn't work, and how you can accomplish a certain task. You need to put in some effort yourself, before anybody else is going to give any. min (a,b,c: int) :int % takes in 3 integers and returns the smallest That should be fairly straight-forward. You Use a repetitive structure to go through and compare the numbers, and keep track of the smallest. Very simple. maxletter (s: string) :char % takes in a string and returns the letter with the highest letter of the alphabet What exactly do you wish to happen? "Returns the letter with the highest letter of the alphabet."? The way it's worded is a bit confusing. And what is defined as the "Highest" letter of the Alphabet? Do you mean, from Start to Finish, all 26 Letters of the Alphabet, 'A' is the highest and 'Z' is the lowest, or is it the ASCII Values for the alphabet? arithmetic_series (a,d,n : int) : int % takes in the first term(a), the common difference(d) and the number of terms(n) for an arithmetic series and outputs the total What exactly do you want to use this for? and what is the Total defined by? It takes (a), common difference (d) = what exactly?, and what do you do to get the Total? ----------------------------------- tg851 Tue Oct 25, 2011 10:36 am Re: how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- here,you can have the code for the first one. this can be easily tweaked to make the second one. be thankful I'm in a good mood or you would have gotten the code in scrambled form,instead it's just undocumented.figure it out for yourself var a,b,c,d,e,f : int get a get b get c d:=0 e:=0 f:=0 for : 1..4 if a>b then d:=d+1 end if if a>c then d:=d+1 end if if b>a then e:=e+1 end if if b>c then e:=e+1 end if if c>a then f:=f+1 end if if c>b then f:=f+1 end if end for for : 1..5 if d=0 then locate (4,1) put a, " is the lowest" end if if e=0 then locate (4,1) put b," is the lowest" end if if f=0 then locate (4,1) put c," is the lowest" end if locate (1,60) put "coded by tomas gaines" end for ----------------------------------- Insectoid Tue Oct 25, 2011 10:40 am RE:how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- tg851, here at compsci.ca we don't like giving full answers for assignments. I'm not a mod, but we'd appreciate it if you'd refrain in future. ----------------------------------- Tony Tue Oct 25, 2011 11:00 am RE:how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- Not sure if serious... ----------------------------------- Insectoid Tue Oct 25, 2011 11:04 am Re: RE:how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- Not sure if serious... My bad; I didn't actually look at the code. ----------------------------------- Nick Tue Oct 25, 2011 11:05 am RE:how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- @tg851: either you're a bad programmer or a troll... either way lololol ----------------------------------- QED Tue Oct 25, 2011 11:06 am RE:how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- Flag variables are a bad idea. They're confusing, difficult to maintain, and unnecessary. You can almost always avoid them entirely by taking a little bit of time to re-design your procedure. Secondly, the less-than operator forms a transitive relation. That is, if min(a,b) = b and min(b,c) = c then min(a,c) = c is a certainty How can you take advantage of this property to succinctly produce a 3-argument min() function? Think about it on paper first, then commit your solution to code. ----------------------------------- Beastinonyou Tue Oct 25, 2011 2:29 pm Re: how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- be thankful I'm in a good mood or you would have gotten the code in scrambled form,instead it's just undocumented.figure it out for yourself for : 1..5 if d=0 then locate (4,1) put a, " is the lowest" end if if e=0 then locate (4,1) put b," is the lowest" end if if f=0 then locate (4,1) put c," is the lowest" end if locate (1,60) put "coded by tomas gaines" end for Holy Eggs!... You hear that people? That's code in Non-Scrambled form.... What would that be then? Poached, or Hard-Boiled? because it's definitely not Sunny-side or Over-Easy. That entire code sequence was like having someone tell me the easiest way to Draw a Square, was to Draw a Diamond with in-equivalent sides, then look at it sideways, then fix those sides. I'm glad our brain's aren't programmed using that logic. =P The day one is, someone call George A. Romero, we'll have a real-life zombie at hand. ----------------------------------- crossley7 Tue Oct 25, 2011 4:47 pm RE:how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- Ok, that code made me sick. If you are going to post help code, don't code in the ugliest, least efficient way possible. (I don't care about comments as it is something I have never learned how to do properly at the expense of many hours of debugging) ----------------------------------- mirhagk Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:11 pm RE:how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- *shudder* I seriously hope that it was a troll, and it must be. ----------------------------------- Tony Tue Oct 25, 2011 5:22 pm Re: RE:how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- least efficient way possible he could have looped through it a few more times, "just to make sure" ;) ----------------------------------- tg851 Tue Oct 25, 2011 6:35 pm Re: how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- its suppose to be inefficient,that way if the tries blatantly ripping it off for a project he doesnt profit from it.It gives an idea of how to do it,but not the BEST way to do it.thats up to him to figure out :wink: and imaen by scrmbld is in no working order whatsoever(its there but every part is out of working order,something my teacher LOVE to do) ----------------------------------- mirhagk Tue Oct 25, 2011 7:50 pm RE:how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- Okay good, I'm glad. Actually this gave me an idea for the course in school, give students fuddled code, and tell them to fix it. ----------------------------------- Aange10 Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:00 pm Re: RE:how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- Okay good, I'm glad. Actually this gave me an idea for the course in school, give students fuddled code, and tell them to fix it. That would probably be excellent! Maybe even a glitch or two... (: ----------------------------------- Nick Tue Oct 25, 2011 8:16 pm RE:how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- A bit off topic here but @mirhagk, a common occurrence in my programming assignments is a half written piece of code. There may be variables declared, functions written, it may even run and do what it is coded to do right, but we have to add in extra functionality or, in the case it doesn't run, get it to run. Sometimes there are even calls to functions that don't exist... yet. ----------------------------------- tg851 Wed Oct 26, 2011 10:12 am Re: how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- what i mean by scrambled is turning this(our latest(easy level)scramble challenge) get terms third := first + second first := 1 first := second end for var first, second, third, terms : int for ctr: 1 .. terms second := third put "Term #", ctr, " is ", first put "Please enter the number of terms to display." second := 1 into this var first, second, third, terms : int put "Please enter the number of terms to display." get terms first := 1 second := 1 for ctr: 1 .. terms put "Term #", ctr, " is ", first third := first + second first := second second := third end for its a right pain to do,one of the most hated challenges in my class.it often results in us just brute forcing the code into working order on the harder ones. :evil: ----------------------------------- QED Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:43 am RE:how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- If that's a typical computer programming assignment for you, then you're high school teacher is not doing his job correctly. There's no educational value in deciphering a programmer's intent by re-ordering his code. None. It's time wasted that you'll never get back. ----------------------------------- Insectoid Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:56 am Re: RE:how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- If that's a typical computer programming assignment for you, then you're high school teacher is not doing his job correctly. There's no educational value in deciphering a programmer's intent by re-ordering his code. None. It's time wasted that you'll never get back. Agreed. Most of the time, when my prof expects me to complete or fix code, I just comment it all out and re-write from scratch. Not worth my time to fix it. Admittedly, fixing other peoples' code is a useful skill to have, but I simply haven't got enough time in an exam/lab to figure out what my prof is trying to do, and fix it (doesn't help that she goes out of her way to make her implementation the least efficient, obvious, or legible possible). ----------------------------------- tg851 Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:58 am Re: how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- QED i know, we've been in this class for 3 months and we've been barley finished FOR LOOPS,for peats sakes i figured that out in 2 days. I've been teaching myself along with asking my teacher for help on something new and thats if hes willing to help me at all.i currently make a working file writer and am working on a minor Turing based OS while most of the rest(2 other people are doing some stuff a few levels below me) of the class blunders along with simple loops.the class has been SUSFU since the start. ----------------------------------- Insectoid Thu Oct 27, 2011 11:08 am RE:how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- QED i know, we've been in this class for 3 months and we've been barley finished FOR LOOPS,for peats sakes i figured that out in 2 days. I've been teaching myself along with asking my teacher for help on something new and thats if hes willing to help me at all Get used to this. 90% of what I know is self-taught. In high school, all you'll learn is basic (VERY basic) algorithms and syntax. 90% of your time will be spent on syntax. Syntax is worthless. As long as you know one language's syntax, you can figure out any other languages' on your own very quickly. If you're really interested in programming you'll spend that 90% syntax time on your own learning. It is not a crime to ignore your teacher if he isn't saying something worth hearing. ----------------------------------- mirhagk Thu Oct 27, 2011 9:06 pm RE:how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- We really need to split the computer science class into the 2 levels that are allowed. A U course should not be as easy as the computer science class currently is, it should be somewhat difficult. ----------------------------------- Beastinonyou Fri Oct 28, 2011 6:46 am Re: how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- If some of you aren't challenged enough in your classes, and are working above and beyond the rest of your classmates, I could offer you an alternative. Like I'm helping Aange10, I will send you a PDF of the assignment he gave us (I type out the assignment he gives us), and you can do that. I'm currently on my 5th assignment, and they've all been a blast. They get more challenging as you go =P ----------------------------------- oanh_goose Mon Oct 31, 2011 9:43 am Re: how to write those funtions? ----------------------------------- this's wat i wrote.... anw thanks 4 those u guys helps var num1, num2, num3 : int function minimum (a, b, c : int) : int if a