C / C++ / MFC

Roger Wright3-Dec-02 19:45

3-Dec-02 19:45

That is one of the most comprehensive and gentle responses I have ever seen on this site to a "please do my homework for me" question. Thank you for setting a high standard for the rest of us to follow. I intend to emulate, to the best of my ability, the model behavior you have established, and I encourage the rest of our members to take notes, and refer to them often.

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Christian Graus3-Dec-02 19:52

Christian Graus

3-Dec-02 19:52

*blush* Thanks for noticing. I am working very hard to put down my sarcastic side and to make sure that the way I talk to new members in particular is reflective of what a great place this is. I've talked a lot about the danger we have of becoming insular, and I'm trying to act in accordance with what I have said. It's worried me a lot lately that particularly newbies posting questions in the lounge seem to get tarred, feathered and run out of town. And of course homework questions are our second pet hate. But who hasn't posted something inappropriate somewhere as a newbie ? I'd rather get the chance to help this person and see them become a CPian than to feel smug that I showed them who is boss.

Christian

No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002

Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002

Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002

Michael Dunn3-Dec-02 20:00

Michael Dunn

3-Dec-02 20:00

While you're in such a good mood, you should gently help out "jirigala" (user #98406) who posted the same question in all these articles

here
here
here
here
here
here

Probably more too, but the web service only shows 10 threads. Wink | ;)

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Roger Wright3-Dec-02 20:40

3-Dec-02 20:40

Christian Graus wrote:
I am working very hard to put down my sarcastic side and to make sure that the way I talk to new members in particular is reflective of what a great place this is.

You're doing a great job of it, and (I hope) setting a good example for the rest of us.

Christian Graus wrote:
I've talked a lot about the danger we have of becoming insular, and I'm trying to act in accordance with what I have said

That's a great danger to a site that is growing at the pace CP is experiencing, and a pitfall that we need to avoid. Those of us who have been around since the beginning are bound to feel threatened by the changes, but we need to grow with them, not oppose them. It's not the same elite club it used to be, and we need to adapt accordingly.

Christian Graus wrote:
But who hasn't posted something inappropriate somewhere as a newbie ?

We all have, I think. My one and only article, so far, was posted only out of a feeling of obligation to contribute something to the site that has given me so much. It's relatively worthless, but it solved a problem my employer needed solved, and it was all I had on tap to offer at the time. I hope that someone else has found it useful, but I strongly doubt it. If my submittal had been met with ridicule and abuse, however, I would have never visited again. We need to keep that in mind when we find a newbie in our midst - we don't want to run off any gems in the rough, and the trend lately has been rather hostile.

Christian Graus wrote:
to feel smug that I showed them who is boss.

Yeah, I know the feeling... It's fun, but transitory. Better, much I think, to suffer in silence a few youthful indiscretions, than to lose a potentially valuable member of our community.

Thanks, again, for setting a standard I'd like to emulate...

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Rage3-Dec-02 21:23

Rage

3-Dec-02 21:23

Roger Wright wrote:
That is one of the most comprehensive and gentle responses I have ever seen on this site to a "please do my homework for me" question

Maybe Chris should add an option under each thread near [Reply], like [Homework], which would automatically reply an answer like the one Christian wrote.

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KaЯl3-Dec-02 22:24

KaЯl

3-Dec-02 22:24

I second that Smile | :)

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Rickard Andersson²⁰3-Dec-02 21:24

Rickard Andersson²⁰

3-Dec-02 21:24

I wonder why persons who start asking such questions and getting answers like these never write back again? Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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C++ Problem Need Help Part 1

Michael P Butler3-Dec-02 22:07

Michael P Butler

3-Dec-02 22:07

I wish my boss would give me such detailed specs.

Sadly he failed his college programming course Wink | ;-)

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alishaklas3-Dec-02 18:56

alishaklas

3-Dec-02 18:56

1) A gas station has two pumps. Cars arrive at an average rate of 24 per hour. The service time for each car is either 3,4,5,6, or 7 minutes each with probability 1/5. Simulate the operation of the gas tation for 8 hours using a one minute time interval. Assume that a car arriving when both pumps are occupied drives on. Determine and print out the fraction of customers lost, in addition to the number of customers served and the total number of arrivals during the 8 hour period.

Christian Graus3-Dec-02 19:20

Christian Graus

3-Dec-02 19:20

Looks like a pretty simple problem - where are you stuck ?

Christian

No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002

Hey, at least Logo had, at it's inception, a mechanical turtle. VB has always lacked even that... - Shog9 04-09-2002

Again, you can screw up a C/C++ program just as easily as a VB program. OK, maybe not as easily, but it's certainly doable. - Jamie Nordmeyer - 15-Nov-2002

C^hris L^osinger3-Dec-02 19:33

C^hris L^osinger

3-Dec-02 19:33

1. assume the student doesn't do the homework.
2. predict the grade on the final.

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Roger Wright3-Dec-02 19:48

3-Dec-02 19:48

Would 'F' be improbable?

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Rand Al'thor4-Dec-02 9:27

Rand Al'thor

4-Dec-02 9:27

This is a forum for ppl wanting solutions for Visual C++. Not to answer something that looks like as if it was copied straight from an assignment sheet.

If it was an assignment or test.. shame on you.
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Arithmetic Error Handling

joshfl4-Dec-02 11:10

joshfl

4-Dec-02 11:10

i would have sold my soul for a college ed. , damn these over privileged kids who expect the world to be handed to them.

Roger Wright3-Dec-02 18:35

Re: Arithmetic Error Handling

3-Dec-02 18:35

Pardon me if this is trivial, but I haven't had to implement this before...

I have a 64-bit value represented by a struct comprised of two DWORDs, a low part and a high part. I want to add an offset to it, and my first thought was to simply add the unsigned long offset to the low part, then check the result; if the result is lower than the original value, then an overflow occurred, and I need to increment the high part to implement the carry. I'm told, however, that C++ doesn't work that way - the result will be undefined. I've tried a couple of dodges, one being to create an accumulator to concatenate the two DWORD values into a single 64-bit value and perform the addition on that entity, but the compiler hasn't a clue what I mean by that, and complains loudly.

What is the proper way to accomplish this addition?

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C^hris L^osinger3-Dec-02 18:56

C^hris L^osinger

3-Dec-02 18:56

use "unsigned __int64" for the math, then break it apart when you need to store it?

-c

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Re: Arithmetic Error Handling

Roger Wright3-Dec-02 19:39