[Tutor] Little apps

[Cameron Stoner]

-Adam,

I made a basic encryption program that's a bit more than 20 lines, but each 
part isn't more than twenty lines.  When you make a program you usually test 
each part out before adding more to it.  Ex:  say you want to prompt for a 
list of numbers and then print them out and then see if you want to do it 
again.  Well you start with the prompt and make sure it works right, then 
move on to the capturing of the data of just one list item.  Once you have 
that done you put this segment of code in a loop that is either dependent on 
the user to know how much data to enter or a preset limet.  The loop just 
needs to terminate some how.  It might be easier to understand what you 
might want to do?  This encryption program took me a while, but that was 
because I didn't plan to well or think things through.  I know some would 
say you should start coding, but code what was always my thought.  Start 
with some kind of menu program, maybe.  Simple exercises in understanding 
concepts like file IO help a lot.

HTH,
Cameron Stoner

>Thursday, December 5, 2002, 7:17:21 AM, you wrote:
>
> >> At 23:16 2002-12-04 -0600, david wrote:
> >>why are global variables bad?
>
> >> Beacause your brain would explode if all variables were global?
>
> >> When we learn programming, we naturally begin by writing small
> >> programs. In small programs, let's say twenty lines of code and
>
>Does anyone want to share some like that?
>
>What did you write in the beginning?
>
>--
>Adam Vardy
>
>
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