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[3man75]

Quick question: I'm looking at two laptops right now for the black friday sail.

Link1 : http://www.brandsmartusa.com/Asus/182488/15+6+Intel+Bay+Trail+M+Laptop+Computer.htm

Link2: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-15-6-laptop-intel-celeron-4gb-memory-500gb-hard-drive-black/4476600.p?id=1219751666691&skuId=4476600

Their both basically the same but one proccesor speed is 1.6 gigahertz and the other is 2.16 gigahertz. As someone who may be using this as a programming computer/college work would the extra proccesor power matter?

I've heard the phrase speed is relevant and it's hard to tell how much more is double the speed.

[LoSboccacc]

I'm really biased against those ultra mobile cpu as they have the habit to throttle back speed under load and are not fast to begin with.

at that price point I fear you're getting very low value for money in the new market.

[Orange Wizard]

Those processors are pretty terrible to begin with.

It's also kinda surreal for me seeing a computer on sale for so little. If I wanted to get that in NZ I'd be looking at $400-500.

[LoSboccacc]

Those processors are pretty terrible to begin with.

It's also kinda surreal for me seeing a computer on sale for so little. If I wanted to get that in NZ I'd be looking at $400-500.

being european, every time I cruise on newegg a piece of my heart dies. (as well as when I'm looking at how a mustang 500 costs in dollars)

[3man75]

Those processors are pretty terrible to begin with.

It's also kinda surreal for me seeing a computer on sale for so little. If I wanted to get that in NZ I'd be looking at $400-500.

Florida only reedeming quality seems to be everything is cheap. Born and raised an that's all I can tell you that I like. In the end i Settled for this: http://www.bestbuy.com/site/asus-15-6-laptop-intel-celeron-4gb-memory-500gb-hard-drive-black/4476600.p?id=1219751666691&skuId=4476600

Mostly because the Processor speed wasn't as small as the 2.16ghz and because of the massive space for college stuff. I can now safely say that no matter the textbook I can hold it in my PC and not my back. Which has started to hurt more because of the new workloads and i'm only 21. No bueno.

Found a problem that I thought would be interesting to figure out from an old homework question. I'll type it out word by word to be clear because I know theirs been tension when I haven't been clear enough.

"Given numRows and numCols, print a list of all seats in a theater. Rows are numbered, columns lettered, as in 1A or 3E. Print a space after each seat, including after the last. Ex: numRows = 2 and numCols = 3 prints:
1A 1B 1C 2A 2B 2C "

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#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main() {
   int numRows = 2;
   int numCols = 3;

   // Note: You'll need to define more variables

   int cols;
   char seat;
   int rows =0;
//Print two rows and three columns:
//1A 1B 1C 2A 2B 2C
while(rows<numRows)
{
  rows++;
  cols=1;
  seat='A';
  while (cols <= numCols)
  { cout << "" << rows << seat << " ";
   cols++;
  seat++;
  //cols++;
 
  }
  cout<<endl;
}

   cout << endl;

   return 0;
}

If I print the code I have above I get something like this:

"1A 1B 1C
 2A 2B 2C"

What i'm trying to do is get all of these numbers in ONE line. An not two lines like I have above.

It seems trivial but It's just that when I look at the code it feels like it should be in ONE line without an endl anywhere or /n. Ideas?

[Reelya]

You want to remove the cout << endl that is inside the "while rows" loop

[3man75]

You want to remove the cout << endl that is inside the "while rows" loop

I feel so ashamed...

Thanks for your help Reelya.

[itisnotlogical]

In Game Maker, I made a thing that randomly generates... not quite levels, but spaces in which a player can walk, by carving spaces out of the tile map.

Unfortunately, the spaces that it creates don't tend to be very interesting. Below is a fairly typical example:

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I don't have extremely fine control over the creation process yet, but I'd like to be able to create the feeling of a game like Nethack, where a typical dungeon level is made of rectangle rooms connected by narrow, one-tile-wide hallways. Maybe a bit more natural-looking than that, but that's the general idea.

[Reelya]

You want to look into maze generation, e.g. Prim's algorithm. This has some theory and an interactive demo:
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2011/1/10/maze-generation-prim-s-algorithm
http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2010/12/27/maze-generation-recursive-backtracking
^ both these algorithms can be made with the same code, just a single different line of code for picking the next tile to open

Once you have a maze generator function you can mix it up with other systems, such as:
http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2014/12/21/rooms-and-mazes/

To get that Nethack look.

[miauw62]

What you have now could make nice-looking caves from the look of it.

[itisnotlogical]

Ahhh, I see. The way mine works, it creates a number of "carving" objects that have a brush size (how wide the tunnel is), a certain tendency to create new branches, a random chance to change directions, and a random chance to terminate in a perfectly rectangular room, which may itself spawn new tunnels. Not sure if that method has a name, but it seems to create almost Minecraft-like twists and turns, or sometimes just a big empty space with a few pillars and chunks scattered throughout.

[Orange Wizard]

Minecraft actually uses a noise function for its caves, which is why they all link up nicely when things are loaded/generated from different directions and such.

[itisnotlogical]

Yeah, it's a function calculated over the length, width and height of the world, right? So the coordinates of a player are actually inputs to the function that makes the stuff.

[Orange Wizard]

Uh, they shouldn't be? The generator should only need to know the location of a block, to decide if it should be air or stone.

[itisnotlogical]

that's what I meant