It is just outputting "Student a_skeleton_03 had a GPA of 3.4." In this Java-like syntax string outputting like that doesn't require you telling it if it will be a digit, character or anything like that. The language will automatically convert it to a String for you for your output.
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I do it quite frequently, I got blasted about it on facebook. It's actually on accident. I use swiftkey and the numbers are above letters in a way that I accidentally fatfinger a number and it happens to be the leet speak for whatever letter I wanted. My phone won't autocorrect it and I just leave it.
A string like that will work on C++ though? Should I instead switch to my syntax?
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Just print it out directly with name and GPA after you're done entering the grades, assignment doesn't specify doing it at the end. I was just being fancy.
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Have I been mixing them? I just can't even right now with this stupid coding.
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I mentioned it because you said something about how strings worked in C++.
Professors love to fail people who use C++ in C
Professors love to fail people who use C++ in C
Same. When a product person tells you they'll ONLY EVER do it 3 ways you damn well make sure to make it flexible enough to accept an arbitrary number of ways of doing something. Because it is never just three ways.
So with some live help from some friends I switched to C++ instead and finished it.
There is one problem with it, if you don't do a standard letter grade there is no error out of it. I am okay with that, I expect my users to be smart.
There is one problem with it, if you don't do a standard letter grade there is no error out of it. I am okay with that, I expect my users to be smart.
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If there's anything you learn from this course, always assume the user is an idiot. Users, other programmers, even yourself a few months from now will come back use your software incorrectly.
Why did you need C++ to finish this?
I know my users are morons but this is homework where the teacher is just looking to see if you got the basics done. You get an automatic 80% if you just figure out the GPA calculation part and your code is written in crayon. I just needed the assignment to be over so I could turn it in.
If there's anything you learn from this course, always assume the user is an idiot. Users, other programmers, even yourself a few months from now will come back use your software incorrectly.
Why did you need C++ to finish this?
I switched to c++ because all my searches for help on google were all written in c++ and nobody was doing anything in c. I know a lot of it is the same but by the time I was done with this it looked quite a bit cleaner and it was really starting to click. I did find the entire switch case part on a website with someone working on a similar program and snagged it but it was because I understood how I could integrate it in.
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In the switch statement you can do a default tag and then something about it being an unknown input, that's what I'd do anyways.
I did that Noodle and since it was so low in the chain it was still incrementing numGrade and throwing off the math. I tried to tie into it a numGrade - 1 but that didn't work so in the meantime it gets the ax.
Inside each item in the switch you should have just done something like:
Remove the count++ off your for loop that way the actual logic drives the incrementing of the loop based upon valid input
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I need to vent about the new job a little. I'm being mentored by this guy that was doing bios before I got there. He keeps coming to me with changes, so I make them, then he does some testing with them. It's very informal. We have some deadline for Wednesday or something but I have no idea. No one tells me anything. Just keep getting loads of work dumped on me but I can't even tell what's real or not.
Also the guy comes back and tells me my bios broke a whole bunch of stuff but it's like dude you told me to put those things in!!
Just frustrated after 2 weeks.
Wonder if I made a mistake..
Also the guy comes back and tells me my bios broke a whole bunch of stuff but it's like dude you told me to put those things in!!
Just frustrated after 2 weeks.
Wonder if I made a mistake..