I don't understand 90% of those errors anyway ever. I do the best I can with what I have to work with which is very limited knowledge at best, almost no sleep in 2 months, not very much interest and less and less as the semester goes on, not enough time, a teacher who's schedules in 2 places contradict each other which makes me push deadlines a lot closer than usual especially the last 2 weeks, and his help may help some in the class but I don't get too far with it. I'm doing what I can with what I have to work with which is pretty much how I do everything. I tend to do a lot with a little and usually I can make it pay off. I posted that mostly trying to figure out if I was on the right track or not, mainly due to the fact that the errors might as well say "23781872940uiaojdfkajioruqywoeprja" that's about how much sense they make to me 90% of the time. that's the first time I didn't even try it yet before posting, if you think it might have helped if I checked it first, next time I will. I was running late and trying to do what ever I could, apparently it was pointless this time. I was bound to get an f somewhere in the semester. I guess this is it.I'll see what I can make sense out of tomorrow, I don't touch school work on Sundays. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 11:10 AM Subject: RE: this C program any better?
Well if you would try to compile it the compiler would tell you where youmade mistakes. You do not seem to be trying it has nothing to do with beingsmart or not. The compiler will show you where your errors are you justhave to learn what the errors mean. Right now your sending the code to thislist asking what's wrong when what you should be doing is compiling it and seeing what the compiler says. The errors you had in that last one would have shown up bright as a neon light in a dark basement if you ran a compiler on it. Ken -----Original Message----- From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Miller Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 5:27 AM To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: this C program any better? Normally I do run it, but this time I didn't because I wanted to see if I was on the right track before I went and finished it so I knew it wouldn'trun as it was. I'm not the smartest person there is by a long shot but I didknow that wouldn't run as was. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 11:51 PM Subject: Re: this C program any better?John, I, like Ken, am curious whether u actually run your code because, if u did, I think you'd see that it wouldn't fly. Let's discuss a few points. 1) A struct is a data type. As such, u do stuff like: struct employee{ int employeeNumber; float hours_worked; float gross_pay; float overtime; } emp; Or u can declare it later by saying struct employee emp; Employee is a tag, while emp is an instance of the structure & is used to reference it. If u want 5 employees, then, it's declared as }emp[5]; or later in the program as struct employee emp[5]; U reference variables of a structure by saying stuff like emp.hours_worked; the period or dot is called the struct operator. If u wanna reference the 3rd employee in an array of structures of instance emp, then you'd say emp[2].hoursWorked (arrays are 0-based, remember). 2) This is a really hard concept for beginner C programmers to grasp (believe me, I know this!), but in the C programming language, with regard to functions, the right hand literally does not know what the left hand doeth. U can, for example, do the following: void change_i(); main() { int i; char ch; i = 10; change_i(); printf("in main, i = " "%d\n",i); ch = getche(); return 0; } void change_i(void) { int i; i = 20; printf("in change_i, i = " "%d\n",i); } In main, i=10, even after the code goes to change_i. I in main & i in change_i, though the name is identical, are 2 entirely different kettles of fish. Run the code & see for yourself. In order to make the above function actually change the value of i in main, a statement at the end of change_i would say return i; & main would say i = change_i(); that way the value is passed back to main. To initialize your data, u could do something like: float initialize(void) int i; float hours_worked[5] = { 40, 52, 37, 45, 40 };;; return hours_worked; } I recommend u download & have a look at sam's teach yourself c in 21 days, available from: http://ftp.build.bg/Books_and_Help/Books/_programming/ But u really do need 2 start running your code & checking its output. On 10/27/07, John Miller <n1umj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Yeah, I know, I sent it in another email. That's what I get for not sleeping last night. I forget to include things in emails. Someday I'll start sleeping well again. When is the question. Hopefully in 2 or 3 weeks when this class is over though I think there's more to it than that. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie McBride" <abletec@xxxxxxxxx> To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2007 5:00 PM Subject: Re: this C program any better? > Couldn't tell u. It's not there. > > On 10/27/07, John Miller <n1umj@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I'm wondering if this code is any better than the last one? 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