----------------------------------- battleroyale Mon Apr 11, 2005 7:54 pm if statement (i got no answers from tutuorial section... ----------------------------------- i have to repost this here.... hello everyone....I AM A NOOB AT TURING....im trying to master (or at least understand the basics) of turing for my computer science class....im writing a simple "chat" program that you input names, dates, ages, etc and its like a chat room. Now iwant to do some yes and no questions with different answers...can anyone help me on how to put if statements in..like if ...this then ....that end if or if ...that then ...this end if w/e....thanks alot BR ----------------------------------- Vertico Mon Apr 11, 2005 8:07 pm ----------------------------------- Im not sure what u mean so ill just give u a very easy example. var name : string get name:* %%gets the name from user. if name = "bob" then %%If the name is bob then it will say the line below this put "hello ", name elsif name = "dude" then %%if his name is dude then it will say this put"Whats up ", name else put"I dont know anyone named ", name %%if its something else it will say this end if ----------------------------------- battleroyale Mon Apr 11, 2005 8:29 pm ----------------------------------- that accually helped alot...but what if the question was like a yes or no...and if you answered something else it wouldnt work...like you need to ask them again..you loop it right? but when they answer in yes or no...how do you get out of the loop? Where do you put the loop and end loop? var ques1:string put "Do you think halo sucks? ", "yes or no?" get ques1:* if ques1 = "yes" then put "good job...cs rules" elsif ques1 = "no" then put "Why do you like bad games for?" else put "you have to answer yes or no" end if ----------------------------------- marshymell0 Mon Apr 11, 2005 8:47 pm ----------------------------------- if you want to ask the same question over and over again, put loop at the beginning after you declare the variable. THerefore, you get var ques1 : string loop put "Do you think halo sucks? ", "yes or no?" get ques1 : * if ques1 = "yes" then put "good job...cs rules" elsif ques1 = "no" then put "Why do you like bad games for?" else put "you have to answer yes or no" end if end loop If you want to exit the loop, then you need an exit when statement, for example, if you want the program to end after you answer yes, you put exit when ques1 = "yes" after your if statement and before your end loop statement ----------------------------------- Tony Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:43 am ----------------------------------- exit when condition is equivalent of if then exit Anyways, battleroyale -- if you don't know how to use if statement, don't try to make a chat program. There are too many things that you're not familiar with yet. ----------------------------------- StarGateSG-1 Tue Apr 12, 2005 10:59 am ----------------------------------- You shouldn't even be using If statments for a chat program you shoudl be learning case, process, procedure, module, serevrs, clients. Until you knwo all that stuff go back to turing for begineer's. WNating to make really nice programs is just as bad as wanting to make hacks. You people need to understand that your are intaneous a programing genious they are very few and far between. ----------------------------------- Martin Tue Apr 12, 2005 12:57 pm ----------------------------------- if and case are the same thing in turing. ----------------------------------- battleroyale Tue Apr 12, 2005 7:49 pm ----------------------------------- yo..no need to yell at me...i now i am noob...by chat program i meant like you are talking to someone...like if they ask you a question and you answer yes or no...like that....omg...people are so mean. Ok i have another question...stupid maybe...for my computer science homework...my teacher gave me like 10 questions..i finished them all (it was simple problems where user puts in numbers like age, money, etc. and you calculate them) What i want to do is first put a question like "WHich question would you like to see?" and then you got the questions listed. I wrote that and put the if ques1="8" (example) then........ what do i do....cuz for c++ my friend told me you could tell it to "GO TO" a specific line and run in from there. Is there something like that too? or do i have to just put in the entire question 8 after then? Thanks again for helping and not flaming... BR ----------------------------------- Tony Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:51 pm ----------------------------------- you can't go to a specific line -- that's not proper programming ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Tue Apr 12, 2005 11:20 pm ----------------------------------- That's BASIC (old stuff) what you have to understand is that you can do everything that you would have done on the line you GOTO'ed in an if statement or something of the sort. BASIC: 10 Input "Name?"; name 20 If name = gandalf then goto 40 30 BLAH BLAH 40 print "hi" (blah, something like that, its been a while...) Turing: var name : string put "Name?" get name if name = "gandalf" then put "hi" else put "nothing" end if something like that can be used for much larger programs too - just experiment and youll get the concept soon enough! :) btw, Halo AND CS both suck so your program is flaud. ----------------------------------- battleroyale Wed Apr 13, 2005 1:34 pm ----------------------------------- i knew that already...but you see...i have 10 different types of programs and i want to make a "menu" for it....what is the easiest way to make one. the programs are like 5-10 lines long (for school) and i want to make a menu....so like i ask. "which question would you like to see". THen i list the numbers....and the user put like 1 or w/e. then it jumps to that... ----------------------------------- jamonathin Wed Apr 13, 2005 2:04 pm ----------------------------------- The best idea I saw was from andy. Compile each program (run [not f1], then generate stand-alone, then ok) and have a new program named 'menu' run each of your questions. use Sys.Exec to open the programs up. If that's too complicated, then make one program that includes every question in it. ----------------------------------- Martin Wed Apr 13, 2005 2:29 pm ----------------------------------- proc Tetris ...your code for tetris goes here... end Tetris proc Snake ...your code for snake goes here... end Snake var choice : char (1) %not sure about the syntax on this one... loop put "1. Play Tetris" put "2. Play Snake" put "3. Quit" getch (choice) if choice = "1" then Tetris elsif choice = "2" then Snake elsif choice = "3" then exit end if end loop ----------------------------------- battleroyale Wed Apr 13, 2005 5:30 pm ----------------------------------- martin you just saved me sooo much time this is what i did first for my "menu" var ques1:string loop put "Which question to you want to see?" put "1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10." get ques1:* cls if ques1= "1" then const pi:=3.14159 var rad:real loop put "What is the radius of the circle?" get rad put "The area of the circle is ", pi*rad**2 delay (2000) cls var yorn:string put "Are you finished with the question? y or n" get yorn cls exit when yorn="y" cls end loop elsif ques1="2" then var fname:string loop put "What is your name?" get fname cls put "Hello ",fname delay (2000) cls var yorn:string put "Are you finished with the question? y or n" get yorn cls exit when yorn="y" end loop %keeps on going cls as you can see...very confusing because it goes all the way up to ten. but after the proc and end blah it got so much simplier. Thanks alot. Now to learn how to do the infamous GUI. any links will be appreciated. [/code] ----------------------------------- Hikaru79 Wed Apr 13, 2005 9:54 pm ----------------------------------- Thanks alot. Now to learn how to do the infamous GUI. any links will be appreciated. No, no, please don't. I don't want to come accross as mean as you seem to have interpreted some other comments. But the Turing GUI is one of the most convoluted and confusing modules in Turing. Please, before you attempt it, get some more basics under your belt. I'm not insulting your intelligence, just that going from if statements to GUI is a bit of a leap. Ask more questions here =) Work your way up, baby steps. ----------------------------------- battleroyale Thu Apr 14, 2005 1:07 pm ----------------------------------- so what shuld i learn now? ----------------------------------- Martin Thu Apr 14, 2005 1:11 pm ----------------------------------- How to use procedures and functions. After that, learn about classes, and finally learn about pointers. ----------------------------------- battleroyale Thu Apr 14, 2005 5:37 pm ----------------------------------- alright...procedures dont...i actually got the basics of GUI. :D . now im trying to make a lottery game and first problem i got is how to make it so that the numbers you can choose are only between 1-10 i tried putting var number : int:=(1,69) but that didnt work...what should i do? :o ALso how do you make it so that if statements can contain more then one = like if blah="a" or "b" or "c" cuz that doesnt work...but it makes sence though.... ----------------------------------- Martin Thu Apr 14, 2005 6:20 pm ----------------------------------- Look up Rand.Int ----------------------------------- battleroyale Thu Apr 14, 2005 9:06 pm ----------------------------------- i understand random number already...i just don tknow how to put constraints on the numbers you can choose ----------------------------------- jamonathin Fri Apr 15, 2005 7:46 am ----------------------------------- You cant put:If whatever = "this" or "that" then You need to put whatever again. If whatever = "this" or whatever = "that" then ----------------------------------- Martin Fri Apr 15, 2005 8:12 am ----------------------------------- This is because if statements function as follows if [statement 1] = true or [statement 2] = true or ... then So what your if statement 'if blah="a" or "b" or "c" ' translates to is: if (blah = "a") = true or ('b' = true) or ('c' = true) then .. as you see, although your statement makes sense in english, it doesn't make much sense in Turing. ----------------------------------- battleroyale Fri Apr 15, 2005 2:02 pm ----------------------------------- ok thanks.....i got it.... NOW lol...how do you make a counter? i cant find the thread...someone give me the link ----------------------------------- [Gandalf] Fri Apr 15, 2005 5:26 pm ----------------------------------- If whatever = "this" or whatever = "that" then hehehe, I didn't know that, I just used case statements - thanks! :D What do you mean by counter? var count : int := 1 loop put count delay(5) count += 1 cls end loop or for i : 1 .. 100 cls put i delay (10) end for both of those can be considered counters? *edit* grr, thats two of those kinds of posts I've had to do in the same topic :doh: ----------------------------------- acidburn90 Wed Apr 20, 2005 9:47 pm ----------------------------------- yeh thats true... ive been working on turing for a long time (7 months) and i still sometimes have troubles with the GUI... also one more thing... someone in this forums did some pretty bad programming... its bad programming to put its exit when answer:= "quit" just making u didnt get i9t mixed for anything major[/quote]