how to write those funtions?

[Aange10]

mirhagk @ 25/10/2011, 6:50 pm wrote:

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]

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]

what i mean by scrambled is turning this(our latest(easy level)scramble challenge)

Turing:

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

Turing:

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.

[QED]

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]

QED @ Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:43 am wrote:

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]

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]

Quote:

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]

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]

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]

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 <= b and a <= c then
result a
elsif b <= c and b <= a then
result b
elsif c <= a and c <= b then
result c
end if

end minimum

put "type in a 3 number"
get num1, num2, num3
put minimum (num1, num2, num3)

[Velocity]

@ emo
Definetly a troll.
@ tg851
That was very nice of you.

[Tony]

just to make sure we actually have some good code in here:

code:

function min_2(a,b : int) : int    if a <= b then       return a    else       return b    end if end min_2 function min_3(a,b,c : int) : int    return min_2(min_2(a,b), c) end min_3

[Beastinonyou]

Tony @ Tue Nov 08, 2011 7:34 pm wrote:

just to make sure we actually have some good code in here:

code:

function min_2(a,b : int) : int    if a <= b then       return a    else       return b    end if end min_2 function min_3(a,b,c : int) : int    return min_2(min_2(a,b), c) end min_3

Best and Easiest Solution for him So Far! =P