C++ Beginner Help

[AhmadMough]

Hello guys i need some quick assistance please
I'm writing a code which goes as follows.
the program will prompt the user to enter a every student's first and last name, major ( of 4 choices CMPS MATH PHYSICS or EECE ), and grade.
it's agreed that the professor will enter the name NoMore to stop the entry.
the program willl then store the info in a txt file. after closing the input file, the program will open it again read the records one at a time until end of file, and do some statistics including: highest grade, average grade, and highest average by major.
Finally the program will print the results
Now i need help anyway and if some could provide me with the Pseudo-code that would be awesome
many thanks ^^

[2kaud]

Please see http://forums.codeguru.com/showthrea...ork-assignment

What help do you want with your program? If you post the code you already have then we'll provide advice and guidance but nobody here is going to do the program for you - or even give you the Pseudo-code - as that would be considered cheating.

However, to assist you with producing your program design, think about how you would do it using pen and paper and what steps would be needed to do this in a program - eg open file, input data, write data etc etc etc.Once you have the program design then you can produce the program code and test and debug it.

Just a note about the program requirements. If the sole reason for storing the info in a text file is to read the records to produce statistics from the data then there is no need to use a file. This can all be done quite easily as part of the processing for each set of entered data.

[zerver]

+1 to what Kaud said. When we say "cheating", we mostly refer to that you would be fooling yourself into believing that you actually learnt something, when you in fact did not.

[2kaud]

+1 to what Kaud said. When we say "cheating", we mostly refer to that you would be fooling yourself into believing that you actually learnt something, when you in fact did not.

...and potentially passing off someones else's work as your own - which IMO is more serious.

[AhmadMough]

okay guys sorry about that
I now know how to do it i just have 1 question
how can i keep telling the user to input names,majors,and grades then when the user types noMore as a name , i stop the input then move on ?

[zerver]

Hi there.

In most programming languages repeated actions are accomplished using loops. The loops are possible to exit based on a condition. I suggest you Google for "C++ loops"...

Regards

[2kaud]

In c++ there are several ways of implementing a loop - for, while and do...while. See http://www.learncpp.com/cpp-tutorial...-introduction/ and subsequent links.

A basic structure of something like this is (there are several ways this can be coded)

do
   get data
   if data_is_good 
       process data
while (data_is_good)

the data_is_good test would be checking if name entered was noMore.

If you post your code we'll provide further advice and guidance.

Good luck!