keeping track

[bucky-lady]

hey!

so i have to add a variable to keep track of the number of tries it takes to guess the correct answer. how do i do that ? could you help me pretty please ?

[StealthArcher]

Every time you run your proc or whatever to get the users guess, and have a variable going to vlaculate something like this:

code:

var guess,answer:string%can also be int var tries:int:=0 proc Guess   loop     get guess     if guess =answer then       exit     else       tries:=tries+1     end if   loop end Guess

and run the rest from there.

Sorry if im not extremely informative.

[Clayton]

Welcome to CompSci, both of you! While here, take a look see at the Turing Walkthrough to try and answer any (and most likely all) of your questions.

@StealthArcher: Your code would be better suited as a function:

code:

fcn correct_guess (guess, answer : int) : boolean     result guess = answer end correct_guess loop     var guess : int     put "Please guess a number between 1 and 4"     get guess     exit when correct_guess (guess, Rand.Int (1, 4)) end loop put "You Win!"

Check out the Turing Walkthrough if you have any problems understanding this.

[StealthArcher]

Nope makes perfect sense to me, i just got to doing functions in class, been using turing only since the beginning of this school year, no previous programming exp of any kind so its a bit difficult to remember all the easy ways to do everything...