programming ...

**sagekoala** · 10-27-2004, 02:44 PM

who wants to do my programming while i watch futurama? http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cs227/Assign/hw8/hw8.html

**hijinks21** · 10-27-2004, 02:48 PM

i do!

**LowMileLude** · 10-27-2004, 03:01 PM

Sounds like fun... but I don't have my compiler anymore.

**sagekoala** · 10-27-2004, 03:37 PM

Originally Posted by LowMileLude

Sounds like fun... but I don't have my compiler anymore.

you can still write it, just trace everything each time you change something! i need to start a contest ... every week we will see who can come up with the best solution to that weeks problem ... and the winner gets ... a golf ball or a stick of gum!

**hijinks21** · 10-27-2004, 03:43 PM

heh.. i remember my old CS days.. out of 120 going in freshman year.. i graduated with 6

the freshman year CS courses about 10 people did the work and the others just copied

Its no wonder why all programming jobs are getting outsourced

g/l with your homework.. that wasn't meant to say you are looking for an easy way out.. just an observation on the laziness that is americans

**sagekoala** · 10-27-2004, 04:03 PM

yeah i don't live on campus (about 35 miles away actually) so i don't really get in on the copying. ... whats worse is that i should even have to take the course ... i got a 5 on both the compsci A and AB advanced placement tests but because they switched the tests over to java they won't transfer in the credit ... oh well

**Nav_Attack** · 10-27-2004, 06:52 PM

oh how i miss those introductory computer science classes.

if i remember right all of our tests were open book.

**sagekoala** · 10-27-2004, 10:47 PM

all of our tests are pencil and paper, closed book, closed friend, and they pretty much have us write a program similar to that of the assigments. you can take all the time in the world ... they provide all the paper in the world for tracing. overall you always come out of the test feeling like you have been assraped because you know that they dock 10% for **** like an off by one error.

p.s. it just occured to me ... WHY THE **** DIDN'T I TEST OUT?

**smashr2k** · 10-28-2004, 01:23 AM

they dont seem to care how long it takes to execute, so just use a two dimensional vector. to find a syn for a word, iterate through the first dimension of the vector. the synanyms will be contained in a list in the second dimension. if you get to the end there is no synanym. to add a synanym for a word, first check to see if you have the word in the first dimension, if you do add it to the end of that words list. if you do not resize the vector and add it to the bottom.

if it had to be fast or large, i would reccomend using a hash table.

**LowMileLude** · 10-28-2004, 11:20 AM

Originally Posted by sagekoala

you can still write it, just trace everything each time you change something! i need to start a contest ... every week we will see who can come up with the best solution to that weeks problem ... and the winner gets ... a golf ball or a stick of gum!

Yeah, I used to write code in notepad then email/copy/paste to compiler when I got home or to school. Real easy for C, not so easy for my Fortran compiler though (did all that on paper).

As for cheating/copying... it was hard doing it. Our Prof. required us to make all our own unique variable names and notate each important line with what we are doing and why.

I did rewrite major parts of my roomate's 77/90 code when we had the class together. He wasn't understanding the logic. I pretty much wrote two completely different codes, that made the same solution (mine and his). It might take 8 days to write it the first time but after that... might only take ~4 hours (since you already know the expected flow/outcome). I still think the Prof knew what I had done. But since it was so completely different and had my roomate's variable names and notations (made him make a list of variables then go through and read the sections and notate accordingly) he couldn't do anything other than let me help answer questions during lab time.