My very first C++ program

Look below, somehow double posted sorry.

Ill use this space to tell a little about my programming knowledge. lol

Well 14 and a half hours from this second of writing this, I knew abosulutly NOTHING!
Whats this and whats that, why is that and why is this? These questions came up alot.
Thanks to the wonderful eBook of "Beginning C++ Game Programming", Im learning C++ with ease, or so it seems.
Any program I make is written by the author of the book, I just look and re type it from character to character.

 

Well I just started learning c++ 4 hours ago, and following along with a really good book. Just finished chapter 1 and did the tutorial but I looked and typed the code myself so I thought it would be nice to share my first program with you guys.

Let me know what you guys think please. And I guess I did copy paste the last 2 lines because it would close once I ran the script.

 

Here is my second one! Decided better to post them here then to make multiple threads.

 

Holy shit... I've done C++ from tutorials on the web and never knew that the "cin" command was that easy to use.

Thanks for sharing your program

 

ohhh nice welcome to the wonderful world of programming ^>^

and for future reference you can use [ code ] (no spaces) specifically for posting programming code

 

Getting errors. Maybe im just too stupid.

 

Errors with which one?

 

Code:

// Lost Fortune
// A personalized adventure

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
const int GOLD_PIECES = 900;
int adventurers, killed, survivors;
string leader;

//get the information
cout << "Welcome to Lost Fortune!\n\n";
cout << "Please enter the following for your personalized adventure.\n";

cout << "Enter a number: ";
cin >> adventurers;

cout << "Enter a number that is smaller then the first: ";
cin >> killed;

survivors = adventurers - killed;

cout << "Enter a character name: ";
cin >> leader;

// Tell the story
cout << "\nA brave group of " << adventurers << " set out on a quest ";
cout << "-- in search of the lost treasure of the ancient dwarves.";
cout << "The group was led by the legendary rouge, " << leader << ".\n";

cout << "\nAlong the way, a band of maurading ogres ambushed the party. ";
cout << "All fought bravely under the command of " << leader;
cout << ", and the ogres were defeated, but at a cost. ";

cout << "Of the adventurers, " << killed << " were vanquished, ";
cout << "leaving just " << survivors << " in the group.\n";

cout << "\nThe party was about to give up all hope. ";
cout << "But while laying the deceased to rest, ";
cout << "they stumbled upon the buried fortune. ";
if ( GOLD_PIECES < survivors ) 
{
     cout << "Unfortunately there wasnt enough gold to go around so " << leader << " gave all the gold to charity." << endl; 
}
if ( GOLD_PIECES >= survivors )
{
cout << "So the adventurers split " << GOLD_PIECES << " gold pieces.";
cout << leader << " held on to the extra " << (GOLD_PIECES / survivors);
cout << " pieces to keep things fair of course.\n";
}

system("Pause");
return 0;
}

some modifications for you

Code:

// Guess My Number
// The classic number guessing game

#include <iostream>
#include <ctime>
#include <cstdlib>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
srand (time(0));
int theNumber = rand() % 100 + 1;
int tries = 0, guess;

cout << "\tWelcome to Guess My Number!\n\n";

do
{
cout << "Enter a guess: ";
cin >> guess;
++tries;

if (guess > theNumber)
cout << " To high!!\n\n";

if (guess < theNumber)
cout << "To low!! \n\n";
}
while (guess != theNumber);

cout << "\nThats it! You got it in " << tries << " guesses!\n";

system("pause");
return 0;
}

originally with your homemade program halter to view the information the program would just close automatically so i put in

Code:

system("pause");

that tells the program to halt and show information to the user and then have them press a key then it proceeds to execute the next line

 

//so after
system("Pause");
//put something like
cout << "Press a key to continue.\n";

 

nope system("pause"); handles all that

 

Cool, thank you for the tip. Its gonna help lol.

 

Well, the end of chapter 3 in this book and this is what I have worked on.

 

Now all you need to do is work on a GUI for this gaming engine

 

Not to that part. lol

 

Does your book teach you how to GUI program in C++?

 

I actually have no clue what a pointer and a template (in your words) is.

 

for what you use these 3 scripts?

btw they are nice good work

 

They are just scripts to practice on.