Timeline for What's wrong with my code for mario?
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| Dec 13, 2017 at 17:07 | comment | added | WhipStreak23 | @Kareem Don't be mean and say "Five months is too long for a problem like mario or pretty much any other problem in the course." Put yourself in the other persons shoes | |
| Aug 12, 2015 at 6:04 | comment | added | kzidane | @Dani it depends on the situation. you do what you need. in this case, I needed to calculate the initial number of spaces before hand, so I did. but yeah, you should definitely initialize variables before using them. | |
| Aug 12, 2015 at 5:54 | comment | added | user8127 | Hi Kareem, thank you for the thorough solution! Is it specific to this Mario problem, or is it common throughout programming, to initialize first and then implement the for loops? I never thought to initialize the number of spaces and hashes THEN to implement the for loops. Is that common elsewhere? | |
| Jul 24, 2015 at 1:25 | history | edited | i_am_david | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 12, 2015 at 9:55 | history | edited | kzidane | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 12, 2015 at 9:51 | comment | added | kzidane | @OreonutNardlee sorry! that wasn't really correct. edited! thanks for the heads-up! | |
| Jun 12, 2015 at 9:50 | history | edited | kzidane | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 12, 2015 at 9:16 | comment | added | user7362 | Hi Kareem! Thank you so much for providing the answer i have struggled with this for a week and been trying a lot of different methods to try to get it to work. you mentioned "The initial number of spaces to be printed out in terms of the height (i.e., 5) is height - the initial number of hashes." which is 5-2 = 3.. is that suppose to be right? there's supposed to be 4 spaces right? because the end line is 6 hashes | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 22:11 | comment | added | kzidane | There's nothing called an if loop. An if statement is just a condition that its body executed "once" if its true. A loop, on the other hand, has what's known as the loop continuation condition. A loop is different from an if statement in the sense that a loop keeps (repeats) executing its body as long as the loop continuation condition remains true. | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 22:06 | comment | added | user1175 | So an if loop can work as well? | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 22:02 | comment | added | kzidane | At any point where you can add a single statement, you can add a control statement (e.g., if statements and loops). | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 21:54 | comment | added | user1175 | I was talking about the for loops actually. Thank you :) | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 21:49 | comment | added | kzidane | If you're talking about the for loops, then of course yes! :) | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 21:47 | comment | added | user1175 | Is it possible to nest this? I've tried doing it but I got a whole bunch of errors. | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 21:45 | comment | added | kzidane | @user1175, I once was in your place facing troubles building a pyramid so this is familiar. But I can ensure you that over time you'll be familiar with problem solving in general and when you take a look back at this you'll find it pretty simple :) Good luck! | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 21:39 | comment | added | nickgilling | Spend a bit of time thinking about Kareem's algorithm. The relationship between the height and the width (i.e. the number of hashes on the base row) is the first thing to work out, from that you can work out how many spaces are needed for each row and how many hashes. | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 20:00 | comment | added | user1175 | The problem is that I've done it on pen and paper and windows notepad. I've worked on greedy.c as well and I have a much harder time than that. I know 5 months is a long time, mind you, I'm still new to programming and new to the C language. I appreciate the help. | |
| Jun 10, 2014 at 7:48 | history | edited | kzidane | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 10, 2014 at 6:43 | history | answered | kzidane | CC BY-SA 3.0 |