Help my little bro

ssj4goku128 · Post by **ssj4goku128** » Wed Jun 04, 2003 7:02 pm

Yo... I got a question. I am trying to help my little bro out in programming, but the program still is wrong. If someone can help him that would be great. His teacher said he can only use a function 1 time, so that excludes recursion from this program and recalling of functions in other ones(so once a() calls b(), c() cannot call b()). The output should be a Christmas tree[which it does output].

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#include <iostream.h>

/*void draw(int endSpace, int beginSpace, int endStar, int initStar)
{
	bool complete=false;
	while(!complete)
	{
		
		for(int spaces=0;endSpace>spaces;spaces++)
		{
			cout<<" ";
		}
		endSpace-=1;
		for(int stars=initStar;stars<endStar;stars++)
		{
			cout<<"*";
		}
		cout<<endl;
		
		endStar+=2;
		if(endSpace==beginSpace) complete=true;
	}
}*/

void drawRow(int maxSpaces, int maxStars)
{
	for(int spaces=0;spaces<maxSpaces;spaces++)
	{
		cout<<" ";//drawSpace();
	}
	for(int stars=0;stars<maxStars;stars++)
	{
		cout<<"*";//drawStar();
	}
	cout<<endl;//nextRow();
}
void drawTree(int maxSpaces, int maxStars, int draws)
{
	int maxStar=maxStars;
	for(int maxSpace=maxSpaces; maxSpace>=8;maxSpace--)
	{
		drawRow(maxSpace,maxStar);
		maxStar+=2;
	}	
	draws++;
	if(draws>3)
	{
		return;
	}
	else
	{
		drawTree(maxSpaces-2,maxStars+4,draws);
	}	
}
/*
void drawNextSection()
{
	int maxStars=6;
	for(int maxSpaces=12; maxSpaces>6;maxSpaces--)
	{
		drawRow(maxSpaces,maxStars);
		maxStars+=2;
	}
}
void drawBottom()
{
	int maxSpaces=12;
	int maxStars=6;
	for(int rows=0;rows<6;rows++)
	{
		drawRow(maxSpaces,maxStars);
	}
}*/
void main(void)
{
	int maxStars=1;
	int maxSpaces=15;
	int initDraws=1;
	drawTree(maxSpaces,maxStars,initDraws);
	/*for(int EndSpace=14;endSpace<=EndSpace;EndSpace-=2)
	{
		draw(endSpace,4,endStars,beginStars);
		endStars+=2;

	}*/
}

ssj4goku128 · Post by **ssj4goku128** » Wed Jun 04, 2003 7:03 pm

My example uses recursion.

WHurricane16 · Post by **WHurricane16** » Wed Jun 04, 2003 7:09 pm

http://www.dcemulation.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=30934

toastman · Post by **toastman** » Wed Jun 04, 2003 8:20 pm

Well, I'm not going to write it but
Loops, spacing values. Keep it simple.
That's all. One function.

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Wed Jun 04, 2003 10:45 pm

A couple of loops would do the trick.

You don't need recursion for that, and it's likely to get in your way. It's not like your traversing a binary tree or anything - you're just drawing a load of characters on the screen.

toastman · Post by **toastman** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 6:20 am

Yeah, we had a similar program to do for a programming competition a while back. Except you had to draw a hollow diamond with a user-inputted character.

ssj4goku128 · Post by **ssj4goku128** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 10:28 am

Figured it out for him! I told him to switch majors as well man.... all he needed to do was to switch the recursion with a while loop.

WHurricane16 · Post by **WHurricane16** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 10:36 am

ssj4goku128 wrote:Figured it out for him!

I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything, but that's what I was trying to avoid.

How's he suppose to learn anything that way?

crt0 · Post by **crt0** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 2:12 pm

It was probably for him anyway, not some mythical 'little brother'. -_-

toastman · Post by **toastman** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 8:50 pm

crt0 wrote:It was probably for him anyway, not some mythical 'little brother'. -_-

You've never had a "friend" who needed "help" before.

Remember this is the guy who _was_ going to port PCSX to the DC, before someone else actually did it.

BTW, I've deleted all of his coding "tutorials" so don't bother looking for proof of his ineptitude from there. I figured it was safer deleting them than risking people asking about them.

ssj4goku128 · Post by **ssj4goku128** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 9:08 pm

#1. I do have a little brother who needed help. He is in an AP course there, and I was doing him a favor.

#2. I figured it out for him. Thank you very much.

#3. A lot of you guys here at these forums post a bunch of egotistical crap. "Oh wow.... This guys was gonna do this... but didn't." Well if I remember correctly, it was many of you guys who stated that authors should release their things on their own time. So I am gonna tell yall to kiss my @$$ and have a nice day[btw... ctr0.. if I remember correctly, you were the same person who was yelling at me saying that the libGPU could not work with PCSX. Well, I proved you wrong their. If you want me to post up the link, I could do so for you]. BTW... for all you people that want an update [so long as you are not a mod as most of them just want to hate and pass heat] on PCSXDC, I have some pvr API to handle textures increasing the speed quite a bit. Hopefully by next week, I will have something to give the beta tester.

Tangent · Post by **Tangent** » Fri Jun 06, 2003 9:15 pm

He's taking an AP course, yet you tell him to switch majors? As I understand it, AP is high school. He shouldn't even have been able to decide what his major is yet. He definitely should change it, btw, if he can't solve a simple problem like that on his own.

Something doesn't quite add up here.

toastman · Post by **toastman** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 7:44 am

Tangent wrote:He's taking an AP course, yet you tell him to switch majors? As I understand it, AP is high school. He shouldn't even have been able to decide what his major is yet. He definitely should change it, btw, if he can't solve a simple problem like that on his own.

Something doesn't quite add up here.

Not to mention the fact that ssjgoku2135443654754 needed help with it as well.

WHurricane16 · Post by **WHurricane16** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 8:33 am

That's the humor in it all

ssj4goku128 · Post by **ssj4goku128** » Sat Jun 07, 2003 3:51 pm

I did solve it for him, but I was too tired to help him out. I was acting like a total dumbass after getting "releived" of my job.

AmadeusZull · Post by **AmadeusZull** » Sun Jun 08, 2003 12:07 pm

handjob?