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IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.
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Yes, I am working on an IT Management degree and they have a single low level coding class in the degree plan. It's stupid and I have no desire to do it but here I am.
Cad
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Yes but you are gainfully employed now right? What do you do in your current job?
I supervise about 20 people at a time that do bandwidth management on government satellites.
My favorite part about having a boss that has no idea how to program is how easy it is to lie to them about how difficult something is so I can never work!
Noodleface
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Even better is I'm the uefi bios expert here now, the only one working on it with any knowledge beyond the old school legacy stuff they know. I can just tell them "yes" or "no" to adding features. Nobody really knows. I could tell them adding feature X will take me 3 months but no one really has any idea. I'm a pretty hard worker though so I'm honest.
But thats almost every task. If developers just did the same thing everyday we wouldn't constantly deliver late software. We also wouldn't be nearly as in demand nor compensated as well.
Okay this week's homework assignment is as follows. I will be working on it and dumping code in here all morning so you guys can see my weak mind fail over and over again at what you guys feel are the most basic of concepts.
Write a program that would allow a user to enter student names and Final grades (e.g. A,B,C,D,F) from their courses. You do not know how many students need to be entered. You also do not know how many courses each of the students completed. Design your program to calculate the Grade Point Average (GPA) for each student based on each of their final grades. The program should output the Student name along with the GPA.
At initial glance I should do the following:
1.) Define the weight for each letter grade.
2.) Ask how many students right at the beginning.
3.) Ask for names and store that, I wonder if I can do a list to a variable.
4.) Ask for letter grades and count how many classes they input and store that.
5.) Ask if that is all the grades.
6.) Ask if that is all the names.
7.) End program.
Write a program that would allow a user to enter student names and Final grades (e.g. A,B,C,D,F) from their courses. You do not know how many students need to be entered. You also do not know how many courses each of the students completed. Design your program to calculate the Grade Point Average (GPA) for each student based on each of their final grades. The program should output the Student name along with the GPA.
At initial glance I should do the following:
1.) Define the weight for each letter grade.
2.) Ask how many students right at the beginning.
3.) Ask for names and store that, I wonder if I can do a list to a variable.
4.) Ask for letter grades and count how many classes they input and store that.
5.) Ask if that is all the grades.
6.) Ask if that is all the names.
7.) End program.
Noodleface
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Nope, our assigned reading for this week is the following two pages ....
Computer Programming Numbers
Computer Programming Characters
Noodleface
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Seems like a strange exercise without access to arrays
Unless the professor worded it poorly and they want you to receive input from user -> print -> loop
Unless the professor worded it poorly and they want you to receive input from user -> print -> loop
I think that is what he wants.
So far here is my opening lines.
I am researching how to take the names and put them into a list I can access later before I start asking for grades, I can use any C or C++ coding I want to because there is no teaching he just wants results it looks like. I will look up arrays.
Is this something I could use in some way?
The way I understand that is that it's putting it into an array called names. How do I make the part in brackets adjustable? I don't know if I am asking that correctly so let me explain it.
First I have asked how many students.
printf("How many students are we grading today?\n");
scanf("%d students.\n", &count);
How do I take that count variable and use it to define how large my array would be? name[count] or something to that concept
The way I understand that is that it's putting it into an array called names. How do I make the part in brackets adjustable? I don't know if I am asking that correctly so let me explain it.
First I have asked how many students.
printf("How many students are we grading today?\n");
scanf("%d students.\n", &count);
How do I take that count variable and use it to define how large my array would be? name[count] or something to that concept
Hrmm, or do I define it earlier when I ask for the amount of students.
I thinkArrays - C++ Tutorialsis giving me a good tutorial on arrays and it will be a good way to store the grades later on.
I think I will skip to that code and come back to storing the names in a bit.
I thinkArrays - C++ Tutorialsis giving me a good tutorial on arrays and it will be a good way to store the grades later on.
I think I will skip to that code and come back to storing the names in a bit.
moontayle
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Do you not need to declare an array variable before putting things in it?
You're probably better off not asking for a hard number of students and just running a loop that ends with "Are there more entries? (y/n)" and breaking if the answer is 'n'. This would allow for human error without forcing them to start all over if they miscounted.
You're probably better off not asking for a hard number of students and just running a loop that ends with "Are there more entries? (y/n)" and breaking if the answer is 'n'. This would allow for human error without forcing them to start all over if they miscounted.