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stupid easy CS class

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I took enriched Computer Science in grade 12 back in HS. Our final project was to build a robot that, using a light sensor, would read a special reflective Tic-Tac-Toe board and play completely on its own. :Q

Actually, we finished and got an A+ on that project. Coolest little robot ever...we built a wheeled motor-driven base that would drive right over the game board and a second little car that would move back/forth horizontally on improvised rails to drop the piece. We swiped the motors from a programmable Lego kit and wrote the TTT logic program in Turbo Pascal. I miss HS.
 
yea, that's cuz it just inputs to ints...could i have made it work with characters? yup...but I'm a lazy bitch...and that's not required 😛
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why do you complain then? if the class was any more difficult, you'd be here complaining that it's too hard. btw, doing only what is required is the best way to experience the unemployment benefits.
 
Originally posted by: yllus
I took enriched Computer Science in grade 12 back in HS. Our final project was to build a robot that, using a light sensor, would read a special reflective Tic-Tac-Toe board and play completely on its own. :Q

Actually, we finished and got an A+ on that project. Coolest little robot ever...we built a wheeled motor-driven base that would drive right over the game board and a second little car that would move back/forth horizontally on improvised rails to drop the piece. We swiped the motors from a programmable Lego kit and wrote the TTT logic program in Turbo Pascal. I miss HS.
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:Q That sound like the project we had for Advanced Topics Computer Science in high school. We built a robot that would shoot lasers at targets. We built the circuits and programmed everything. We used a few different languages, it was an enlightning experience. I knew I didn't want to do computer engineering.

Deeko, that sounds like a ridiculously easy class. GAtech programming is ridiculous... I am so glad I left it. Their program is just retarded how much work it is.
 
sudheer anne, I go to Drexel, its a fairly respected program.

Yea, I could have made it better, in many ways....but if that's all they require, thats all im doin.
 
sudheer, i was in 11 last quater. i saw you write you're name on the board for tutors help. 🙂

seriously though, if you think 8b is time consuming, prepare to work you're ass off in 12 next quater.
 
My HS has an introductory C++ class... what a joke. I must give my school credit though, we could have nothing. Not like half my class hadn't done any programming before, I for one have been programming since I was 8, so I cant help to laugh at an intro course.
 
Originally posted by: Deeko
ugh....my CS class is a joke. The assignments are stupid and tedious, and we have to do all sorts of ridiculous stuff with them, even though they are insanely easy. And so many of them could be done so much more easily with more advanced techniques, but we can't use anything that we haven't gone over in class. Look at how ridiculous these programs are.
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Ok...so its an easy A....but still...UGH!
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>> but we can't use anything that we haven't gone over in class


God, I HATED that whenever a professor pulled that crap. Especially when there was a more efficient way of doing things. Fortunately, most didn't.

Dave

 
You get a B for the first one. Add a

getchar();

at the end of your program so I can actually see what the volume is before the window closes 🙂
 
Originally posted by: silverpig
You get a B for the first one. Add a

getchar();

at the end of your program so I can actually see what the volume is before the window closes 🙂
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it works fine when you run it from VC++ 😛 We didn't learn getchar yet...so I'm not allowed to use it 😛
 
I just double clicked it.

I think getchar(); was in the very first c++ assignment I ever did, and that was a "copy this code, compile it, and run it" type thing to ease us into it. All it does is it keeps the window from closing when the program is finished.
 
Originally posted by: MartyTheManiak
wow...so lame..

I also had an easy CS class last semester, but even that was harder than this (like writing a 9 queens program using recursion or checking for kolakosky sequences).
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I remember programming that in Prolog. Man i loved prolog, but i know alot of people that hated programming in that.
 
Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
Dude put a cin.ignore or something in there.. your program just closes and I can't see what the volume of the pyramid is.
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See my post a few up about putting a getchar(); in there.
 
Originally posted by: silverpig
Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
Dude put a cin.ignore or something in there.. your program just closes and I can't see what the volume of the pyramid is.
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See my post a few up about putting a getchar(); in there.
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For us non-programmers out there (yet), what do you mean by "volume of the pyramid".
 
My advice is that many of you who find CS so easy might spend the extra time brushing up on your social skills.

😉
 
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