[gameprogrammer] Re: Simple C++ Program

On Monday 25 September 2006 05:26, Jake Briggs wrote:
> Mark Silence wrote:
> > On 9/24/06, boris Jiron <xxlildragonjr@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> As I said before I am new to programming.  Do you think you could
> >> give me an
> >> example of the code?
> >
> > If you are new to programming, and taking a beginning class, then
> > you may not have gotten into arrays yet.
>
> Oh, good point. I forget what its like to be a beginner sometimes :)
>
> > If this is the case, an alternate, much messier, method of
> > accomplishing this objective would be simply printing strings.
> >
> > I'd try basically the same approach as Mike and Jake suggested,
> > start by using something like
> > cout <<  "MMMMMMMMMM DDDDDDDDDD SSSSSSSSSS" << endl;
> >
> > you will nead to adjust the number of letters and number of cout
> > statements to get a block of letters the size you want. Then, begin
> > replacing letters with spaces inside the strings to begin forming
> > the shape of the larger letter.
>
> You could just have :
>
> cout <<  "DDDDDDDDD        " << endl;
> cout <<  "DDDDDDDDDDD      " << endl;
> cout <<  "DDD  DDDDDDDD    " << endl;
> cout <<  "DDD     DDDDDDD  " << endl;
> cout <<  "DDD        DDDDDD" << endl;
> cout <<  "DDD          DDDD" << endl;
> cout <<  "DDD          DDDD" << endl;
> cout <<  "DDD        DDDDDD" << endl;
> cout <<  "DDD     DDDDDDD  " << endl;
>
> for a weird looking D. Then once you have it printing out like that,
> work out how to use a for loop to spit out the same pattern :)
>
> I can't remember how soon I was introduced to arrays when I started
> to learn programming (you never really stop), i am sure it wasn't
> that late though....
>
> How beginner are you anyway? Like a total n00b who has never written
> anything apart from "hello world"?

This is litle OT, but I add this one my friend has as (one of) his sig.

main(i){for(;printf("\33[%d;%dH%c",1+i%5,i/5%78," >?%%> >"
">BB< B?2B B?2B ?0 "[(i/9999+i/5)%26]&1<<i%5?56:32);i++);}

Quess what is his firstname;)


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