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@LeFlawk well, I know now who is the real head of department. I will talk to him tomorrow or Monday because I figured out how was him when he was already out of campus. I'm trying to make this code working on VS2015 and it's not working for any weird reason...
Also, I remember that he said that it was wrong to use char instead of int to count the length of a string (he gave us the base code with a hardcode restriction of 20 characters for the string) so a char should be enough, right? He said to me that chars are a waste of space in this case because its size is bigger than a int ಠ_ಠ (isn't a char 1 byte and an int 4?) Honestly, I don't know what to think anymore... -
@infinite-lifes I will! Now I have his card and will contact him. I prefer to see him in person to show him that it's working everywhere but VS2015 (even OS X).
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@LeFlawk
#include <stdio.h>
int length(char * p){
char i;
for (i = 0; p[i] != '\0'; ++i);
return i;
}
main(){
int len;
char str[20];
printf("Input string: ");
scanf("%[^\n]%*c", str);
len = length(str);
printf("The length of string is %d. \n", len);
}
He gave us the main function, we just have to code the length function. It works using char, int, ++i or i++ (he also complaint because I was using ++i instead of i++)
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She runs C shells by the seashore.
So, for my C class, the computers in the lab are using VS 2015. To be able to compile C we have to change some settings to allow the program to compile.
I like to use my computer (with Arch Linux) and use my tools (Vim and GCC).
The guy next to me was trying to do the homework, but he was struggling. I decided to give it a shot and I was able to do it, so I showed him my code and he tried it in the computer.
The program crashes every time no matter what. We asked the professor. I show him my code and how it's working. Apparently he was confused because I was using the terminal and not VS. So he proceeded to said that it's because I'm not using VS2015 and GCC is doing the whole work for me.
I'm like ಠ_ಠ and then he keeps saying that he doesn't know what or how GCC works (for real? Someone that teaches C and has a Ph. D on CS doesn't now what GCC is?) but that it is apparently doing everything for me. So my code should be wrong if it crashes on VS2015.... ಠ_ಠ
What do you think? I'm thinking about talking with the head department of CS (I know that he is a Linux guy) and see what happens. Should I do it? Or should I just use VS2015 as the "professor" is asking?
I even tried online compilers to see if it was just working on my computer, but even they use GCC to compile.
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if it works is wrong
how does it work?
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