Help With C++

Hey guys i just stared learning c++ or at least attempting to so yes my knowledge of it is EXTREMLY basic however i really want to learn more about it unfortunatly i take C++ with a class of 25 other freshman (im a junior) that are just learning HTML so the help i get from my teacher is EXTREMLY limited (whoa i just said extremly in all caps twice in one post!!!) any way so the help i get is limited like i said and i was just wondering if you could look at this code and tell me what exactly is wrong with it cause i cant figure it out any help would be great.

/* chapter four review 13Zachary Everman Oct 5 */#include<iostream.h>int main(){char pw;cout << "Enter the password: "cin >> pw;if (pw == zach)cout << "You guessed it!"elsecout << "Sorry try again"return(0);}

Edited October 5, 2005 by BuffaloHELP (see edit history)

Looks generally all right to me, although it depends on what you want to do. There are a couple of errors in syntax:

if (pw == zach)                        // zach needs to be inside quotes.    cout << "You guessed it!"        //You need a semi colon here.elsecout << "Sorry try again"        //You need a semi colon here.

Also, since you're trying to compare pw with zach, and zach is not a variable (I'm assuming this, else please declare zach somewhere in the beginning), pw needs to be an array of characters, not a single character. Have you done arrays yet?

G'luck and keep at it... cheers!

nope at least i dont think i know what arrays are any way im just trying to make it that where "cin" is you can enter any thing u want if u enter zach it gives u that first cout thing other wise it says sorry please try again. After i get that part working i need to figure out how to put somthin called a { do while } statement in or somthing? im just now learning about this looping thing not tottaly grasping the conecpt though

it`s works at me....that return(0) is very ????

okay so i got it to work just fine but as soon as i put in these do while statements in it dint work so any help on where to put em?

/* chapter four review 13Zachary Everman Oct 5 */#include<iostream.h>#include <lvp\string.h>int main(){String pw;do {cout << "Enter the password: ";cin >> pw;if (pw == "zach")cout << "You guessed it!";elsecout << "Sorry try again"; } whilereturn(0);}

Hey... the while needs a condition to go with it. You see, the idea of a do-while loop is that you're asking your compiler to excecute a sequence of statements (DO) as long as (WHILE) some condition is satistfied. For instance, you might want to add 5 to a variable till the value of that variable reaches, say, 100. Your program would look like this:

#include<whatever.h>void main(){         int i = 0;         do{                        i=i+5;          }while(i<=100);}

I'm curious as to what book you are using to study your C++. Just in case you are not entirely satisfied, you could look at the following free resources:

http://www.freeprogrammingresources.com/cppbooks.html
http://www.thefreecountry.com/documentation/onlinecpp.shtml


You could, in particular, try this:

A Beginner's Guide to C++

You can download Postscript versions of this draft version of a book designed for an introductory computer science course in Australia. The electronic book is designed for newcomers to C++ wishing to learn the C++ programming language. If you need a free Postscript viewer, you might want to try Ghostview.

Of course, you could just skim CH1 and go straight to Ch2 which seems more relevant right now.

or this:

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
[Link to a book called Thinking in C++, Vol 1]

Keep us updated on your progress
Cheers!

Thanks alot and im using a buck called "A Guide to Programming in C++" its made by lawrenceeville press and its autor type people are Tim Corica Beth Brown and Bruce Presleyand once again thanks for the help