What is this program asking for

[Joeman]

I am self-taught. So when you say the teacher isn't teaching you, go ahead and learn by yourself. There are many useful tutorials, examples, articles, documents, references, books, faqs and free code that you can learn from by yourself without an instructor holding your hand. The best way to learn is to keep it fun, but highly technical.

http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial
http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/
http://parashift.com/c++-faq-lite/
http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html
http://www.learncpp.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2B
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_...puter_science))
http://www.cppreference.com/wiki/

well that list can go on. the links have no order. there is a wealth of knowledge there that will take years to obtain.

[Paul McKenzie]

So when you say the teacher isn't teaching you, go ahead and learn by yourself.

Believe it or not, that is what many teachers are looking for. Even though you're self-taught, you would still have done well in a formal programming course.

The students that need a lot of handholding are the ones that usually do not do well, and the teachers know this (however they don't want to say it to the student's face).

Basically, computer science/programming are subjects that just do not fit well with a lot of handholding -- either you understand it right away or close to right away, or you don't. If a student is still going on for days or even weeks not understanding the material, to many teachers, it's time for that student to look for a new major, field of study, or just drop the course (some will be kind and give the 'C', for effort, but that is only a few).

It's a harsh reality that most people do not have their brains wired for programming (thinking in logical/algorithmic, discrete, well-defined steps), but they take programming courses not knowing what's in store. Regardless of how smart they may be in other topics, programming just doesn't seem to click for them, and then in the end, the teacher gets wrongly blamed for their lack of understanding. I have seen this personally in college, both as a student and a teacher.

A lot of new posters surmise that the teachers are not good if the assignment cannot be completed by them. However, a teacher that doesn't seem "good" is looked that way because the student isn't improving or understanding the material. Granted, there are a lot of C++ teachers who just don't know C++, and that is a problem. However I'm refering to the ones who do know the language and are blamed for not being "good".


Regards,

Paul McKenzie

[Philip Nicoletti]

To the original poster : Test your Displace() function.