Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Hello, I just got finished going over a solution in class that I couldn't get to for the life of me.
At the end of the class I asked my teacher what I could do so that I could train my brain to come up with the solution.
To be exact, the problem posed was that I basically had to right code to create a hollow box and a solid box, given any set of dimensions.
I immediately knew how to write the code for the solid one, but could not figure out how I was supposed to right code such that we get spaces in the not-first, not-last, and all the inbetween rows/columns.
Long story short, he advised that I do some problem solving puzzles. Now I've been googling for this stuff for the past 10 minutes and I'm just being directed to silly SAT math problems.
I was wondering if you guys knew of any ways to help sharpen critical thinking and problem solving skills that are vital to writing great source code.
At the end of the class I asked my teacher what I could do so that I could train my brain to come up with the solution.
To be exact, the problem posed was that I basically had to right code to create a hollow box and a solid box, given any set of dimensions.
I immediately knew how to write the code for the solid one, but could not figure out how I was supposed to right code such that we get spaces in the not-first, not-last, and all the inbetween rows/columns.
Long story short, he advised that I do some problem solving puzzles. Now I've been googling for this stuff for the past 10 minutes and I'm just being directed to silly SAT math problems.
I was wondering if you guys knew of any ways to help sharpen critical thinking and problem solving skills that are vital to writing great source code.
Try solving this one: write a program using loops to print this out:
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project ueler http://projecteuler.net/
this guy is full of them, i got better at knowing how to use what I knew with this guy
this guy is full of them, i got better at knowing how to use what I knew with this guy
I think you would want a basic understanding of nested loops and for loops before you tried anything from project euler ;)
Ok, I'll take a crack at that. Thank you both for your responses!
When I find a solution to that I will post it!
When I find a solution to that I will post it!
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I wouldn't recommend Project Euler to C++ beginners.
A few problems are relatively easy to solve, and a lot difficult especially in C++.
A number of problems can be solved elegantly by using a BigInteger library (which C++ has yet to provide as standard). This will lead you to installing GNU MP or, God forbid, writing such a library yourself.
Then, most of the problems are reliant of a solid math background, if they are to be solved elegantly, and this has little to do with how well you know C++. Worse, they give you no hints or solution, so you need to learn the math elsewhere.
A few problems are relatively easy to solve, and a lot difficult especially in C++.
A number of problems can be solved elegantly by using a BigInteger library (which C++ has yet to provide as standard). This will lead you to installing GNU MP or, God forbid, writing such a library yourself.
Then, most of the problems are reliant of a solid math background, if they are to be solved elegantly, and this has little to do with how well you know C++. Worse, they give you no hints or solution, so you need to learn the math elsewhere.
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