CS Mentor: June 2016

Lesson no : 2 - ( COUT function & Escape Sequence )

Hello… People with Happy Faces.. Just right after finishing the Exams and having a Leisure time.. :)

How you doing guys.. Having fun..!! I know.. Batch trips , Vacation etc,etc.. Well… me too.. :)

We had to pause our C++ programming post series because I had semester exams for almost an entire month from 24th of May to 17th of June.. And You know what.. the exam was my B'day gift from KDU.. Yeah people.. It was on my Birthday.. 24th of May.. Yey.. Happy birth day for me..!! :)

However I put some posts to discuss the model papers before the exam..

So.. Now we have enough time to continue our amazing post series ;) Let’s start again..

Last time we ended our post with explaining the cout in c++.

Cout is use to display or print anything on console.

You can print

any text
any value of a variable
result of any operations with variables

Remember the last time, we printed your name and your address..?? This time lets discuss some techniques we can use to print text using cout. ( By print I meant displaying it on the console. Not actually printing it using a printer!!)

When you print texts or words using cout, you can’t print some characters as output.

“ - double quotes

‘ – single quotes

\ - backward slash

? – question marks

For example

Cout<<”Don’t come late. Did you miss the bus today? ”;

If you try to print this you will probably end up in a error. Reason is that you have ? question mark and ‘ single quote to print.

Now you have a problem , how to print “” or ? ‘ these.. Right..? Well, you have a way to do this. It is called "escape sequence" .

You can type any of those symbols right after a backward slash, then there will be no error.

Ex:-
cout<<” Don\’t come Late. Did you miss the bus today\? ”;

Cout<<” \”Here Im Using Double quotes with in double quotes.. ;)\” ”;

Here's a list of Escape Sequence.

Try this list in your code.

Specially this \t – tab and \b-backspace part.

Ok.. I will Stop this little post from here by leaving you some exercises. Please do these and I promise you to discuss them in my next post..

Ex 01:

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****
******
********
**********
************

Write a program to print above triangle.

Ex 02:

Try to print letters like this in the terminal.

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Answers for the First Semester Exam

Hey there.. Folks.. I'm Back after 1st sem exams.. Back in Action... ;) But, Still I can't take my mind out of the exams.. So I decided to do a post about the exam paper.. Hope this will important to my blog readers.. :)

This paper was included with 4 questions, and had to answer all of them. Lets start from the first one.

Q1.

a.) This is a theoretical question about programming. I copied this answer-phrase from my previous post.

Types of Programming Errors.

Syntax Error

This happens when we type incorrect codes, (ex: Missing Semi Colon ; , misspell a variable name, forget to close a Bracket } , )These programs can not compile, it shows an error message.

Logical Error.

This error occur due to our misunderstanding of the programming logic,These programs compile without producing any error messages, but does something totally different other than what we expected from the program.(To get a total, instead of addition + we type multiplication * , this doesn't give any error message, but give an unwanted result.)

Runtime Error.

Programs with this error also compile without any error message until some error occur in runtime.
Ex :- Devide by zero in runtime.

b.)

(i) Syntax Error

(ii) Logical Error

(iii) Runtime Error

c.)

(i) This statement is 'True' because in any program language the codes are executed line by line, so

without the declaration-part reads first, the program

doesn't know what is the variable is.

(ii) This is 'False' because, c++ is case sensitive. The variable name value with lower case letters and

the variable name VALUE with upper case letters

are not identical in c++, means both variables can be exist at the same time.

(iii) This is also 'True' because when 2 integers are divided there might be a remainder for that division. If any two of decimal numbers are divided

(Floats) the answer is also a decimal point number,

there won't be any remainder for that division.

d.)

In this program there are 3 inputs, and we want to find the largest one only. so what we do is, we compare two numbers first and get the largest from those two and compare that with the other remaining number.(we need not to find the order of numbers , just the largest one only) To do that we need three selection conditions, one input and three output diagrams.

Q2.

a.)

In this question what you have to do is create some names for some variables they have given, using the rules and etiquette we have taught.

(i) float speed , float Speed , float spd ,.. etc.

(ii) char Grade , char grade , char grades , char Grades , char Grad...etc

(iii) float selPrice , float sel_price ,...etc

b.)

(i) int sum ;

(ii) count = 0 ;

(iii) cout<<" The average is: "<<avg ;

cout<<"\" The average is: \" "<<avg ;

c.)

(i) False- Even without the default case the switch works without producing any error, but in most cases default is

very essential part of the switch.

(ii) False - Precedence of arithmetic operators are higher.

Here's the order of precedence of operators.

(iii) True- because || operator is the Logical OR operator.

d.)

Q3.

a.)

(i) while loop

do while loop

for loop

(ii) The while loop and the for loop are both entry-condition loops. The test condition is checked before each iteration of the loop, so it is possible for the statements in the loop to never execute.

Exit-condition loop, in which the condition is checked after each iteration of the loop, guaranteeing that statements are executed at least once. This variety is called a do while loop

(b)

(i) 2 1.5 1 0.5

(ii) 10

(iii) 10

(c)

Q4.

a.)

(i) score

(ii) double

(iii) 10

b.)

A function has 2 main parts, Function Header and Function Body. As the features of a function we can consider few parts in detail,

return type ex:- int , static , void , float, double
function name ex:- int main () , double func1 ()
parameter list ex:- int func1 (int num1, int num2)
function body : rest of the function in curly braces

c.)

(i) int smallest (int x,int y,int z)

(ii) void instructions ()

(iii) double intToDouble (int number)

d.)

In above function the parameters(arguments) in function header x and y are declared with ampersands. int &x , int &y.This is because we want to pass the value to the function by reference.

That means when the values of the arguments are changed in the function, actual values of the reference variables are also changed.

Here I attached the complete program for you to try.

#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

void zeroSmaller(int &x, int &y);

int main ()

{

int a;

int b;

cout<<"Enter a value for a"<<endl;

cin>>a;

cout<<"Enter a value for b"<<endl;

cin>>b;

zeroSmaller(a, b);

cout << "After value of a :" << a << endl;

cout << "After value of b :" << b << endl;

return 0;

}

void zeroSmaller(int &x, int &y)

{

if(x>y)

{

y=0;

}

else{x=0;}

return;

}

Here in function zeroSmaller, if x is lower then x will be set to zero by the function , but at the same time the actual value of a is also set to zero, because the value was passed by reference. And the value of b will be set to zero if the y is the lowest.

So that's all for the first semester exam. Hang around with my c++ programming posts series to learn this completely from the beginning.

If you have anything to be more explained please mention in comments section below or any good or bad thoughts about this blog please comment.

See you in my next post.. Happy vacation.. :)

Quick Post For 1st Semester Exam

Hey Guys.. This is a Quick Post to Discuss About the Model Paper of my Uni.. hope others will get something from this too..

Here I pasted the paper... And Down there I Discussed it...

Question 01 (25 Marks)

(a) Differentiate the machine language and the high level language. (5 Marks)

(b) Define the terms compiler and interpreter. (5 Marks)

(c) Describe the different ways to include comments in a C++ source code. State whether the comments are nested. (5 Marks)

(d) List the three main kinds of program errors.

i. Identify the error discovered, if you “misspell a variable or a function name”.

ii. Identify the error discovered, if you “use a single equal sign to check equality”.

(5 Marks)

(e) Write a C++ program to display the following output. (5 Marks)

(Hint: Use escape sequences.)

Question 02 (25 Marks)

(a) The following identifiers are written in C++ and some of them are syntactically incorrect. Identify the syntactically incorrect identifier(s) and state the reason. (5 * 1 = 5 Marks)

i. CASE4

ii. 2010IncomeTax

iii. sales$

iv. exchange Rate

v. cout

(b) Write C++ expressions for the following mathematical formula. (5 Marks)

(c) Determine the value of each of the following expressions, if x = 5, y = 10 and z = -6. Write your steps clearly. (5 Marks)

i. y > 15 && z < x + y

ii. ! ( y <= 12 ) || x % 2 == 0

(d) Illustrate the outputs of the following program segments. (5 * 2 = 10 Marks)

int num1, num2, sum;

num1 = 5;

num2 = 4;

sum = num1 + num2;

cout << "The sum of ";

cout.width(2);

cout << num1 << " and " << num2;

cout << "is" << sum << "\n";

float value1, value2, product;

value1 = 5.31;

value2 = 7.8;

product = value1 * value2;

cout.setf(ios::fixed);

cout.setf(ios::showpoint);

cout.precision(2);

cout << "The Product of\n" << value1 << "and";

cout << value2 << "is\n" << setw(14) << product;

ii.

Question 03 (25 Marks)

You are required to implement a program to handle customer sales of a fruits stall at Katubedda Super Market. Write a program in C++ to calculate the amount of price and print a bill for the customer. Your program should allow:

(a) To input a number of items bought (quantity) and the price per item (unit price). (5 Marks)

(b) Calculate the total cost; give discount to the customer according to the following conditions. (5 Marks)

If the customer bill amount is greater than Rs.500/=, will be having a 2.5% discount.

If the customer bill amount is greater than Rs.750/=, will be having a 3% discount.

If the customer bill amount is greater than Rs.1000/=, will be having a 5% discount.

(d) Print an appropriate bill. The output should correct to two decimal places. (5 Marks)

(e) Your program should allow doing the calculation as many times as the user wishes.

(Hint: Use suitable C++ loop structure to implement this task.) (5 Marks)

Question 04 (25 Marks)

A competition is being organized by StarCricket Club to select the most popular player for year 2015. Nalaka, Amila, Saman, Ruwan and Chathura are five players who are contesting for popularity. The players are numbered from 1 to 5 and voting is done by entering the player number as an input.

Write a C++ program to read the vote and to count the votes cast for each player using an array. In case, a number read is outside the range (1..5), the vote should be considered as a ‘spoilt vote’.

Your program should include the following tasks.

(a) Define an array called “vote” to store votes of players. Initialized each array element into zero. (5 Marks)

(b) Read data into an array called “vote”. (Nalaka’s votes are in the first element of the array, Amila’s votes are in the second element of the array etc..) (5 Marks)

(Hint: Use switch statement to handle the user selection.)

(Hint: Use a suitable C++ loop structure to implement this task.)

(d) Calculate the number of votes cast for each player, number of spoilt votes and total number of votes. (5 Marks)

(e) Print the number of votes cast for each player, number of spoilt votes and total number of votes. (5 Marks)

END OF PAPER

Q1.

a.) Difference between Machine Language and a high level language is ,

A machine Language is a low level language which a computer can understand or computer's use machine language to work. ex:- Assembly

On the Other hand a high Level Language is a programming language closer to human language or as humans high level languages are easy to understand and to work-with for us. ex:- java , c++

b.) Define compiler and Interpreter..

compiler and interpreter both work as translators of a source code to a machine language.
it means it translate the code we type using codeblocks into machine language.(like binary )
Some Programming languages use compiler only i.e C, C++, some use interpreter i.e Python, Ruby, some use both.

c.)

Compilers Translate the entire source code at once into machine code file, and then we can run our program any time we want. Compilers are Faster. Consume more memory. If there is any error in the code compilers are less accurate in finding them.
Interpreters on the other hand translate the code line by line , consume more time, memory efficient, and accurate in finding errors in the code.

c.) Comments in C++,

Comments are lines of text we put in a code which does not effect to the code any how. We use comments to mention important things in a code. We can write anything as comments there are no limits.
There are two types of comments in C++, Single line comments and Multi line comments.
For Single line comments we put // , two backward slashes and we type the comment text in a single line.
For multi line comments we put /* at the begining of the comment and we end the comment with */
Nesting comments means put multi line comment in side another multi line comment. C++ does not support Nested comments.
we can check that by

int nest = /*/*/0*/**/1;
cout<<nest;

if the output is 1 , it supports nested comments and if output is 0 then it doesn't support.

d.) Types of Errors in c++

Compile Error (Syntax Error)

This happens when we type incorrect codes, (ex: Missing Semi Colon ; , misspell a variable name, forget to close a Bracket } , )These programs can not compile, it shows an error message.

Logical Error.

This error occur due to our misunderstanding of the programming logic,These programs compile without producing any error messages, but does something totally different other than what we expected from the program.(To get a total, instead of addition + we type multiplication * , this doesn't give any error message, but give an unwanted result.)

Runtime Error.

Programs with this error also compile without any error message until some error occur in runtime.
Ex :- Devide by zero in runtime.

Syntax Error (Compile Error)
Logical Error.

Q2.

a.) Identifiers are the names we use when programming , (Names we use to name Variables , function , class etc..) An identifier starts with a letter A to Z or a to z or an underscore (_) followed by

zero or more letters, underscores, and digits (0 to 9).

Identifiers can't have !@#$%^&*()+=.. Only Underscore.

CASE4

2010IncomeTax

sales$ // $ Dollar Sign

exchange Rate // Space between two words

cout // cout is a function name, cant use as an identifier

b.)

c.)

&& - Logic AND % - Modulas (Remainder of a devision)

|| - Logic OR == - is equal to ??

! - Logic NOT

= 10>15 && -6<15

= false && true

= false

ii)

= !(10 <= 12) || 5%2 == 0

= !true || false

= NOT (true) OR false

= false

d.)

ii)

Q3.

a.) Here I posted some Screen Shots from My Code. Some code parts have described with in comments.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Q4.

a.)

Here also I explained every part of codes in comments, in this example I have used an if else if statement to find the winner, which has not asked to do in question paper.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

That's all guys... Hope this will help you.. C..U after the exams.. Good luck.. :)

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