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[MaximumZero]

Care to share? We can probably help you chop it into manageable pieces, if your prof won't get mad about you seeking help outside your class.

There are profs like that? How asinine.

Edit: Incoming terribad pun. So bad, I'm spoilering it.

Spoiler: I warned you. (click to show/hide)

So, who added #include<vector> to the top of this thread, and why didn't they do it before now?

[Max White]

Spoiler: I warned you. (click to show/hide)

So, who added #include<vector> to the top of this thread, and why didn't they do it before now?

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[alway]

Care to share? We can probably help you chop it into manageable pieces, if your prof won't get mad about you seeking help outside your class.

There are profs like that? How asinine.

RIT's policy is touching others' code counts as cheating. Since you can literally copy and paste the solution to most programming problems from the web, if you do get caught, it's usually at least an automatic failure of the class, and usually much, much worse. There's one hilarious story of a student years ago who copied and pasted his entire project and then cited the source he got it from. Technically it wasn't academic dishonesty, as his citation essentially stated he had cheated, and so instead of reporting him to the dean for cheating, the professor decided to make sure the guy would be forced to drop the class and retake it. The professor gave him a grade on the project which was such a massive negative number it managed to cause a buffer overflow in the grading database, corrupting the grading database for his entire class.

Not to mention, by the sounds of it Vector is having little to no issues with getting that homework done.

[MaximumZero]

Care to share? We can probably help you chop it into manageable pieces, if your prof won't get mad about you seeking help outside your class.

There are profs like that? How asinine.

RIT's policy is touching others' code counts as cheating. Since you can literally copy and paste the solution to most programming problems from the web, if you do get caught, it's usually at least an automatic failure of the class. There's one hilarious story of a student years ago who copied and pasted his entire project and then cited the source he got it from. Technically it wasn't academic dishonesty, as his citation essentially stated he had cheated, and so instead of reporting him to the dean for cheating, the professor decided to make sure the guy would be forced to drop the class and retake it. The professor gave him a grade on the project which was such a massive negative number it managed to cause a buffer overflow in the grading database, corrupting the grade database for his entire class.

Not to mention, by the sounds of it Vector is having little to no issues with getting that homework done.

Okay, I can see where that's coming from, but damn.

Spoiler: I warned you. (click to show/hide)

So, who added #include<vector> to the top of this thread, and why didn't they do it before now?

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^_^

[Valid_Dark]

What is the best networking api for c++? And why?
I'm thinking raknet

I'm guessing no one here knows anything about networking api's ?
later this week I'm going to finish my 2d game, then I'm going to finish my pure c++ studies (will take a while), and then I want to learn a networking api, I know thats not going to be for a while, but I was hoping to maybe get an opinion about a few of them before I pick which one I'm going to stick with, instead of just randomly choosing one.  Raknet seems to be the most professional, and it's free if your project has a budget under $100,000. 
does anyone have any sort of input that could help me decide?
the choices I've come across so far are:
Boost Library
Poco Library
Ace Library
Raknet

[Max White]

The professor gave him a grade on the project which was such a massive negative number it managed to cause a buffer overflow in the grading database, corrupting the grading database for his entire class.

It was at this point I started to wonder how honest you were being.
Also, what a lame database! Tempted to give a lesson or two on SQL now...

[MorleyDev]

There is a difference between policy and 'policy'. Whilst it technically has to be all your own work, all universities I know of aren't going to smack you down if you get outside advice or opinions so long as you understand the advice and don't just "copy and paste" their implementation. Write it yourself so it fits with the rest of the code etc. Just treat all code shown to you by others as pseudocode to demonstrate the concept.

As for network API, I'd probably go boost just 'cause it's friggin' boost, it is practically an official extension to the standard library for C++ in it's own right. If ever networking made it into STL odds are good it'd look something like how boost implements it.

[alway]

The professor gave him a grade on the project which was such a massive negative number it managed to cause a buffer overflow in the grading database, corrupting the grading database for his entire class.

It was at this point I started to wonder how honest you were being.
Also, what a lame database! Tempted to give a lesson or two on SQL now...

Nah, perfectly honest. And yeah, that particular system into which the database is tied is terrible.

Spoiler: details about just how terrible (click to show/hide)

That professor and one of the others in our major are constantly plotting against it in order to bring its demise; though the entire university is pretty entrenched with it unfortunately. It has everything ranging from terrible exploits to legacy code which no one knows what it is, what it was used for, or why it is even there.

One quarter, those two professors found a hole allowing them to insert a link which would show up for everyone who used it in the entire university. And thus, for 1 quarter, the system had a link at the top labelled "cat farm" which was visible to everyone in the university.

Then there was some sort of 'agent' system which allowed for automated emailing if certain user conditions weren't met. Naturally, the professor found this and decided to pester another professor by creating an agent which would automatically email another professor if he hadn't logged into the system in the past 24 hours. After about 3 months of this, the professor getting the emails was getting kind of annoyed at the near-daily messages from "Agent Of Irritation" (since you could name the sender in the agent system, apparently), and begged the other professor to turn it off. So he went back into the system to turn it off and... found that a patch had remove access to the agent system. So it was still there and will continue sending him near daily messages until an end date at some point in the distant future.

Get him started about how terrible the system is and the conversation can go on for hours.

And yeah, for networking, I don't know much about it myself, but Boost would be a good bet. Boost is nearly standard anyway at this point, with several pieces of it being pretty much taken from Boost and inserted directly into C++11.

[MaximumZero]

That's just...wow.

[Max White]

Nah, perfectly honest. And yeah, that particular system into which the database is tied is terrible.

Spoiler: details about just how terrible (click to show/hide)

That professor and one of the others in our major are constantly plotting against it in order to bring its demise; though the entire university is pretty entrenched with it unfortunately. It has everything ranging from terrible exploits to legacy code which no one knows what it is, what it was used for, or why it is even there.

One quarter, those two professors found a hole allowing them to insert a link which would show up for everyone who used it in the entire university. And thus, for 1 quarter, the system had a link at the top labelled "cat farm" which was visible to everyone in the university.

Then there was some sort of 'agent' system which allowed for automated emailing if certain user conditions weren't met. Naturally, the professor found this and decided to pester another professor by creating an agent which would automatically email another professor if he hadn't logged into the system in the past 24 hours. After about 3 months of this, the professor getting the emails was getting kind of annoyed at the near-daily messages from "Agent Of Irritation" (since you could name the sender in the agent system, apparently), and begged the other professor to turn it off. So he went back into the system to turn it off and... found that a patch had remove access to the agent system. So it was still there and will continue sending him near daily messages until an end date at some point in the distant future.

Get him started about how terrible the system is and the conversation can go on for hours.

BAHAHAH that is amazing! Legacy systems are fun when nobody expects you to fix them...

[Stargrasper]

Nah, perfectly honest. And yeah, that particular system into which the database is tied is terrible.

Spoiler: details about just how terrible (click to show/hide)

That professor and one of the others in our major are constantly plotting against it in order to bring its demise; though the entire university is pretty entrenched with it unfortunately. It has everything ranging from terrible exploits to legacy code which no one knows what it is, what it was used for, or why it is even there.

One quarter, those two professors found a hole allowing them to insert a link which would show up for everyone who used it in the entire university. And thus, for 1 quarter, the system had a link at the top labelled "cat farm" which was visible to everyone in the university.

Then there was some sort of 'agent' system which allowed for automated emailing if certain user conditions weren't met. Naturally, the professor found this and decided to pester another professor by creating an agent which would automatically email another professor if he hadn't logged into the system in the past 24 hours. After about 3 months of this, the professor getting the emails was getting kind of annoyed at the near-daily messages from "Agent Of Irritation" (since you could name the sender in the agent system, apparently), and begged the other professor to turn it off. So he went back into the system to turn it off and... found that a patch had remove access to the agent system. So it was still there and will continue sending him near daily messages until an end date at some point in the distant future.

Get him started about how terrible the system is and the conversation can go on for hours.

BAHAHAH that is amazing! Legacy systems are fun when nobody expects you to fix them...

SQL is easy.  Unfortunately, not everything that the DBMS's use is standardized, so a lot of things are DBMS specific.

And that is a terrible database...just can it and install MySQL.  It's free and works.  Pay for an Oracle DBMS if you really need it.  Wow...I'm impressed.  And yeah, legacy systems are fun.

[Vector]

Yeah, can't post it and ask for help, not least because I've gotter git er done alone so's I can pass thur tests.

What it does is implement a computer version of the dice game "pig."  Pig is a pretty sucky game.  Still, it's cool that we get to make cheap and terrible games right off the bat.

[Max White]

Ah, so you will have used all three basic control structures.
Understandable that you can't get direct help, but if you ever want a general run over of how something works, I've done some python in the past. Not my weapon of choice, but still...

Been meaning to make a libtcod tutorial sometime as well.

[Vector]

Well, yeah.  The thing is, I've already programmed a 1500-line game before with hardly any documentation for another class (because I was the one programming it >_____>), with help from a professor in places we students didn't get to see (thus not adding to the line count).  It won a prize.  So, the thing is, I do occasionally feel pretty good at this... just... not right now =/  There's plenty of people in the class who already took extensive AP compsci and did lots of coding on their own, so the forums set up for the course alternate between ridiculous noobish questions and expert-types stroking their e-peens.

Oh well?

[Max White]

Rather impressive!
So I'm guessing you already have the basics of a procedural program down, do you use objects at all?