Poll of the Day > Anyone here with c++ experience willing to help my dumb ass

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Taking an online course and the professor and assistant arent very responsive... got a midterm tomorrow and I'm trying to make sure I'm throughly prepared

Sure, got any specific questions?

Awesome. I've figured out a lot but I'm trying to fully understand formatting. For instance, cout.precision... that refers to amount of digits to the right of the decimal point correct? If so, does that apply to the rest of the program or just the next output?

Much appreciated

Also... is there any difference between \n and endl?

For $50/hr yeah.
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I don't know how epsilon works in c++ >.>
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AwesomeTurtwig posted...

For $50/hr yeah.

So that's like less than a dollar for a minute response... I'll PayPal you

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ostream/endl/?kw=endl

Inserts a new-line character and flushes the stream.

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ios/ios_base/precision/
seems like it stays set. you can also write a short program to test it, which is almost always better than asking.
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yeah, what sahuagin posted. For almost all things C++, you can easily search google and find a bunch of good resources that will explain things in depth with examples (especially for basic C++ functionality). I do it at work all the time.

Sahuagin posted...

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ostream/endl/?kw=endl

Inserts a new-line character and flushes the stream.

http://www.cplusplus.com/reference/ios/ios_base/precision/
seems like it stays set. you can also write a short program to test it, which is almost always better than asking.

I appreciate it. I have zero experience with programming and this course is online with pretty much zero teaching so I've been going through YouTube vids to learn. But yeah, my assistant just emailed me saying the same thing about just repeatedly testing different chunks of code

OhhhJa posted...

I appreciate it. I have zero experience with programming and this course is online with pretty much zero teaching so I've been going through YouTube vids to learn. But yeah, my assistant just emailed me saying the same thing about just repeatedly testing different chunks of code

just to be clear, while on the one hand I am trying to say "learn to read documentation" and "learn to write test code", not really trying to discourage questions either.
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