any one a programmer?

[pHi]

nevermind

[maxim]

post in the coding section genius.

or if that fails the coding section of overclockers because most people here just play source

[nuk3]

Originally Posted by pHi

You need an algorithm for counting votes for two candidates and declaring the winner or a tie. The user will be asked to enter: 1 for the first candidate, 2 for the second candidate, or 0 to stop counting and to display the result. Write the algorithm as pseudocode.

help? please?
cheers

set candidate1 to 0
set candidate2 to 0

while input not 0

	ask user for input

	if input equals 1
		 candidate1 = candidate1 + 1
	else if input equals 2
		candidate2 = candidate2 + 1

loop

print candidate1
print candidate2

just work from that to add in a check for a tie, etc, piece of cake, etc.

and learn to post in the correct forum.

[hst_]

edit:beaten to it :<

[chemicalNova]

Oh my god.. Pseudo-code teachers are idiots.

Whats to gain from pseudo code... nothing. I HATE TEACHERS LIKE THAT.

chem

[nuk3]

Originally Posted by chemicalNova

Oh my god.. Pseudo-code teachers are idiots.

Whats to gain from pseudo code... nothing. I HATE TEACHERS LIKE THAT.

chem

some logic and design techniques I suppose.

they may as well teach LOLCODE instead imo.

[nogusta]

lolcode hahah yeh I was reading about that today on scott hanselmans blog. I love how you can exit a loop etc by writing "GTFO" hahahahah

[Khaless]

Originally Posted by chemicalNova

Oh my god.. Pseudo-code teachers are idiots.
Whats to gain from pseudo code... nothing. I HATE TEACHERS LIKE THAT.
chem

Actually, quite a ****ing lot.

Just not in dumb **** examples.

If you take an OS theory course you will most likely come to appreciate it quite a bit.

[chemicalNova]

Originally Posted by Khaless

Actually, quite a ****ing lot.

Just not in dumb **** examples.

If you take an OS theory course you will most likely come to appreciate it quite a bit.

Thats my point.. it's all for dumb **** examples.. I mean, "Write pseudo-code for iterating through an array and displaying the contents"... HOW ****ING STUPID.

Granted, an OS theory course it would be handy.. breaking down a complex operation from an OS would make sense.. but loops? NUGGET PLEASE!

chem

[Khaless]

Originally Posted by chemicalNova

but loops? NUGGET PLEASE!

For someone new, completely new to programming It makes sense. You don't have to teach them an often confusing syntax, along with the new (and for them, confusing) control flow.

I have actually been talking to academic staff and students about teaching programming quite a bit recently, with the re-formation of the cs stream at my uni. Needless to say, the politics is bull****, and the idiots are winning.

But this is an argument for another day (... a 30hr day!).

[shotty tomato]

Originally Posted by Khaless

But this is an argument for another day (... a 30hr day!).

I'm sure if it was part of a delicious plan you could fit it into your day

[Henry]

The point of pseudocode is clearly for VB programmers. "errrr how do I do something in VB? I know I'll just write it in plain english and it'll work. YAY!"

Pseudocode is meant to be for people that don't have programming experience and need to learn how to structure arguments logically. I've seen some of the civil engineering people at uni try and code and the way that they try and structure it is quite hilarious

[Khaless]

Originally Posted by Henry

Pseudocode is meant to be for people that don't have programming experience and need to learn how to structure arguments logically. I've seen some of the civil engineering people at uni try and code and the way that they try and structure it is quite hilarious

You have clearly missed the many academic papers and journals that present their arguments and examples using pseudo code.

[Henry]

Originally Posted by chemicalNova

Oh my god.. Pseudo-code teachers are idiots.

Whats to gain from pseudo code... nothing. I HATE TEACHERS LIKE THAT.

chem

That's what I'm getting at khaless. Pseudocode helps people new to coding learn the logic behind it. Not saying it isn't used in more advanced things as well. My bad for the ****ty sentence structure

[atech]

Originally Posted by nuk3

some logic and design techniques I suppose.

they may as well teach LOLCODE instead imo.

hahahaha lolcode, nice.

[ivo]

lolcode > pseudocode IMO

Half (or some margin) the benefit of it is it can be easily translated directly into most languages. So you write a general algorithm in pseudocode and a programmer of any taste can incorporate it easily.