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[TheBiggerFish]

We are talking about a school project here. Introducing new concepts that haven't been covered in the class probably isn't helping.

Exactly.
Too much complexity is a Really Bad Thing in a school project.

[Moghjubar]

Well, I finished (relatively) an IRC bot last night that can take commands, one of which is a twitter timeline request to get the last tweet of a user.  All done in C++ using winsock and OpenSSL.

Man that was a wild ride that took all last week.  I basically had to figure out everything all at once, and the documentation for someone coming in with no experience on networking/http requests, let alone the twitter API, is such a pain.  Also, basically everyone else is NOT using C for this, so I got answers for everything but C.

The good news is now I know how to do it, so hooray for that!  (and now, I gotta make myself finish a game I was working on that has gone on way longer than the 1 month timer I set for it... gotta push out some art and finish making dat level)

[Reelya]

I'm currently building a Pipemania clone about trains in Unity for a class project. I'm the team's programmer and it's going pretty well.

The other guys are slacking off with creating art assets however, but I got the whole thing working with all Unity graphics primitives, and I put work into the Trello and documentation, so my ass is covered once the review period comes in

It's a balancing act: how to do my job perfectly, and get good marks without <slack bastard #3> getting any of the undeserved credit for everyone else's efforts. There's always one guy in a group who wants to skate home on everyone else's work. We're keeping good track of who-did-what-task though.

[TheBiggerFish]

I'm currently building a Pipemania clone about trains in Unity for a class project. I'm the team's programmer and it's going pretty well.

The other guys are slacking off with creating art assets however, but I got the whole thing working with all Unity graphics primitives, and I put work into the Trello and documentation, so my ass is covered once the review period comes in

It's a balancing act: how to do my job perfectly, and get good marks without <slack bastard #3> getting any of the undeserved credit for everyone else's efforts. There's always one guy in a group who wants to skate home on everyone else's work. We're keeping good track of who-did-what-task though.

Short answer:Author field.
Long answer:Lots of comments AND the author field.  (And the parameter.)
Longer answer: Find some sort of proper repository thing to use for tracking things with and do that.  Bonus for syncing everything.
In the interest of full disclosure: I have no clue what I'm talking about.

[nogoodnames]

So today I learned about this: https://www.imaginecup.com/
It's an international programming competition sponsored by Microsoft. Unfortunately, the deadline for submitting your proposal is the 28th and I doubt I'll be able to get together with a serious team, let alone flesh out a winning concept in that time. Still, it would probably be a good experience.

One of my professors is holding a meetup for interested students next week, which is, uh, cutting it a little close. I'm thinking about showing up. Preferably with an idea ready to go.

[Gatleos]

But you inverted win and lose here. If the user chooses "0" (Rock), then beats[userChoice] == "2" (Scissors). You then have that if the computer picks "2" (Scissors) then the program prints "You win". i.e player (rock) beat computer (scissors).

Yeah, that's an important thing to note. My logic works, but the way I named the variable implied that it means the opposite of what it does. It's important to name variables in such a way that anyone modifying your code doesn't mistake its purpose.

[TheBiggerFish]

So today I learned about this: https://www.imaginecup.com/
It's an international programming competition sponsored by Microsoft. Unfortunately, the deadline for submitting your proposal is the 28th and I doubt I'll be able to get together with a serious team, let alone flesh out a winning concept in that time. Still, it would probably be a good experience.

One of my professors is holding a meetup for interested students next week, which is, uh, cutting it a little close. I'm thinking about showing up. Preferably with an idea ready to go.

That website is not mobile-friendly...

[3man75]

Still working on my RPS code (teacher decided to put in new requirements. Again) but I wanted to know what this does: numeric_limits<streamsize>::max()

From the name I speculate it limits how many numbers you can input but i'm not sure. Online resources also don't have a laymans term for it either.

[Skyrunner]

Incidentally, does anyone have a recommended VPS service? Linode and digital ocean seem like well-known ones, but I am not sure which is better...

[3man75]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

cout << "Hello player, Please between Rock (1), Paper (2), and Scissors (3) to play the game." << endl
      << endl;

   cout << "Alternatively, you can press 4 to escape the game." << endl << endl;

   cin >> userChoice;

   srand(time(0));

   compChoice = ((rand() % 3) + 1);

   


      while (userChoice <= 0 || userChoice >= 5){

         cout << "Error. Wrong input." << endl << endl;
         //check works fine.
         cin >> userChoice;
      }

   

         if (userChoice == 1){

            cout << endl << "You have picked rock." << endl;

            if (compChoice == 2){

               cout << "The AI has picked paper and you lose!" << endl;
            }
            else if (compChoice == 3){
               cout << "The AI has picked Scissors and you WIN!" << endl;
            }
            else {
               cout << "You have tied with your opponent!" << endl;
            }
            //Will be showed no matter the choice above.
            cout << "You can play again by pressing 1, 2, or 3 for rock, paper, or scissors respecively. Or 4 to leave the game."
               << endl << endl;
         }


         if (userChoice == 2){

            cout << "You have picked paper." << endl;

            if (compChoice == 1){
               cout << "The AI has picked rock and you WIN!" << endl << endl;
            }
            else if (compChoice == 3){
               cout << "The AI has picked scissors and you lose!" << endl << endl;
            }
            else {
               cout << "You have tied with your opponent!" << endl << endl;
            }
         }

         if (userChoice == 3){

            cout << "You have picked scissors." << endl << endl;

            if (compChoice == 1){

               cout << "The AI has picked rock and you lose!" << endl << endl;
            }
            else if (compChoice == 2){
               cout << "The AI has picked paper and you WIN!" << endl << endl;
            }
            else {
               cout << "You have tied with your opponent!" << endl << endl;
            }

            
         }

         cout << "If you would like to play again pick 1-3 for rock, paper, or scissors." << endl;

         cout << "Or now that you've played you can press 4 to escape." << endl;

         cin >> userChoice; //Breaks out of the loop.

         compChoice = ((rand() % 3) + 1); //Second PC choice so it's not the same.

      } //Final loop


    //This is for the loop



   system("Pause");
   return 0;
}

Finally got it working to how my teacher wanted (I think her instructions can be vauge.)

[Reelya]

The loop for the main game seems to be missing from what you pasted there. are you sure it works? It won't compile with your code for me. Always fully test the thing before handing it in, and always after making changes.

I can see you're missing a while loop that needs to go back to the top of the program from the bottom. But basically wherever you put it, you're going to have glitches in the printouts, i can tell you that right now. put up a proper working version here and I'll show you why there are errors.

[da_nang]

Has anyone used CodeXL before? Is there a convention on how source code should be stored for the code to show up when profiling programs? Like, does it matter what I put as a source directory as long as the actual source file is in there?

Because right now, the profiler can't find the source file despite Source Files Directories in the Project Settings pointing to the correct directory so it only shows a disassembly of the executable.

[Gatleos]

Code: [Select]

auto va = std::make_shared<anim::Vector>(call(static_cast<void(PolygonNode::*)(const sf::Vector2f&)>(&PolygonNode::setPosition), this));

can i change majors

[cerapa]

Code: [Select]

auto va = std::make_shared<anim::Vector>(call(static_cast<void(PolygonNode::*)(const sf::Vector2f&)>(&PolygonNode::setPosition), this));

can i change majors

No.

You have to live with this. There is no escape.

[Telgin]

At least you have auto.  Back in my day we had to use typedefs to make C++ container definitions not take up half a page apiece!