Can someone *please* code this program for me?

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I don't want to sound mean or anything but this really reads like a homework problem but maybe I am the only one. If not you probably would have better luck using one of those online coder rental sites probably would be cheap unless someone here is feeling generous enough to spend 30 minutes.
 
Is there a reason he can't use excel? You could do most if not all of this in an excel spreadsheet.

I don't want to sound mean or anything but this really reads like a homework problem but maybe I am the only one.
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No, you're not the only one that thought that. Why would his friend care about about? :confused:
Looping. Iteration.
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Oh and that I found this exact problem in an assessment booklet. Is your friend named bob?
 
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munkle said:
Oh and that I found this exact problem in an assessment booklet. Is your friend named bob?
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I lol'd, nice find.

Assessment Task 1: Plan a Computer Program to Provide a Solution
Element 1 Plan a computer program to provide a solution.

The Scenario
Bob is a carpet layer. He needs a way of calculating how much carpet he needs to take with him to be able to cover the floor in a room. The carpet he has is supplied in rolls that are 5 metres wide and 30 metres long. Any excess width gets discarded. This means that rooms that are wider than 5 metres need several strips of carpet. The smallest space that Bob will carpet is 1m x 1m, the biggest 20m x 20m.

Example:
For example, a room is 11 metres wide and 15 metres long.


Each roll of carpet is 30 meters long by 5 metres wide when it is unrolled.



Any excess width is discarded. This room will therefore need 3 strips of carpet. Each strip will be 15 metres long. The first two strips will be the full 5 metres wide, but the final strip will have to be cut so that it is only 1 metre wide.


Bob’s Problem:
Bob needs to know

The length of carpet to cover the floor of a room,
How many rolls of carpet he will need to do the job,
How much carpet of full width he will have left on the last roll of carpet.

Bob charges for his carpet by the metre, so he only works in whole metre lengths (e.g. If Bob needed to use 1.6 metres of carpet, he would charge for 2). He presently has to draw diagrams to work all this out, and would like a computer program to work this out for him. Bob has limited IT knowledge and would like his program to be easy to use, so he needs a user manual to explain how to use the program.

Write a brief to determine how you will solve Bob’s problem. Your brief must identify the problem, describe the program in terms of its purpose, target users and also outline its specifications (including constraints) to be met in order to provide a solution.


Write an action plan that describes what methods you will use to solve the problem, including: what testing you will do to ensure your method is correct; what resources you will need; and how long you expect to take to solve the problem. Include a sketch of your proposed application’s screen layout.

Design and draw a structure diagram for your program. Use pseudo code to describe the more complex parts of the program on the following page.
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It's interesting how he changes the wording to try and make it sound not like a copy-paste. Wasn't good enough.
 
... what does your good friend Bob plan to do if a room isn't perfectly rectangular anyhow?

Sounds like he might want to consider a career change to me!
 
This is one of the funniest things I've seen on these forums in a long time... and I have a genmay subscription.
 
hmmmmmm its too late now but it would have been funny to give him some code that would wipe his entire hdd or something :\
 
event_horizon said:
Complete novice here. Can anyone tell me the Visual Studio 2008 code to run a simple program that will do ...
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VS 2008 Code? What language would that be (you have narrowed it down to about half a dozen)?

When is the deadline? I'm sure I could have something ready you just before. :cool:

munkle said:
Oh and that I found this exact problem in an assessment booklet. Is your friend named bob?
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lol, nice find.

silent-circuit said:
This is one of the funniest things I've seen on these forums in a long time... and I have a genmay subscription.
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You should, you are missing out! ;)
 
Well, he hasn't logged on since posting this.

Which version of VS2008 (Visual Studio 2008)? Professional, Express? Do you want ASP3.5 support? And would you like it in Basic? I'm pretty sure I can write up something using M68000, but you'll have to tell me if its 16- or 32-bit...
 
This thread delivers......many lulz. Recognized that assignment as soon as I saw it, but then I was like "no way, no one can be that dumb". I stand corrected :( . You might have stood a remote chance in hell if you at least showed some work you did, and asked for our input.

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event_horizon, why would you offer to do something for someone when you don't know how to do it?
 
Hmm...with all this effort he is investing in trying to get others to do his work for him, you'd think it might be less effort to just do the original work. lol
 
lol yahoo answers???

but seriously you may want to consider a career change if you are incapable/uninterested in doing such a programming assignment. You wont get very far in any half decent comptuter science type degree trying to coast through and cut corners like this, much less make it in a career.
 
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