guessing a-z

hey, i could use a little help with this code for C++. I have been at it for several hours now and being a fresh new programmer to C++. I was wondering if someone could give me some help or sutocode for this game.

And here is the rand() code that I have:
// ASCII code for lower case a-z.
char randChoice = rand() % 25 + 98;

Write a game that picks a random letter between ‘a’ and ‘z’ (the lowercase alphabet). Read a character (and the newline that must follow it) and tell the user how many letters away they are. Repeat until they guess the right one.

pseudo code, not suto

dont write this in C++

lol, pseudo code, gotcha. wasn't really paying attention there.
ok, well, I have writen a number guessing game and I have been trying to use it as a base to write this letter guessing game. Although, matching the random letter and letter chosen with cin.get() is eluding me.

Lolz, omg, nm. I finally figured it out myself. I had to force the char userChoice into an int by using (int)userChoice, then compare the two. And then i could use an if-then statement to compare and cout the results.

Use C

Use C++

Thanks >>3, your wise. Here's what I ended up with


my @words;
push @words, $_ foreach a..z;

while (1) {
        print "Guess: ";
        chomp(my $guess = <STDIN>);
        if ($guess eq $words[int rand @words]) {
                print "You guessed right!\n";
        }
        else {
                print "Try harder.\n";
        }
}

>>1
shitCase detected, please start over.

>>3

import Control.Monad
import Data.Char
import System.Random

play :: Char -> String -> [String]
play letter guesses =
    map offset $ takeWhile (/= letter) guesses
    where
      offset :: Char -> String
      offset guess
          | guess `elem` ['a'..'z'] =
              case (abs ((ord guess)  - (ord letter))) of
                1 -> "You are off by 1 letter."
                n -> "You are off by " ++ show n ++ " letters."
          | otherwise =
              guess : " is not a letter between a and z."

main :: IO ()
main =
    do letter <- randomRIO ('a','z')
       guesses <- liftM (filter (/= '\n')) getContents
       putStrLn "Guess a letter between a and z"
       mapM_ putStrLn $ play letter guesses
       putStrLn "You Win!"

>>10
Char *is* an instance of Ord. That use of elem isn't very pretty.

>>8
your code
is
STUPID!

>>11
It's pretty in its own way. And wonderfully inefficient. But, I assume that someday the compiler will be smart enough to rewrite it to the more efficient:

| guess >= 'a' && guess <= 'z'

>>12
MY CODE IS AWESOME >:(

>>10
I lol, Haskell lovers pretend their code is awesome and here I see a huge pile of crap that would be more readable in assembly language if I wrote it :D

>>15
I lol, [insert language] lovers pretend their code is awesome and here I see a huge pile of crap that would be more readable in assembly language if I wrote it :D

>>1-16,18-999999
I lol, assembly lovers pretend their code is awesome and here I see a huge pile of crap that would be more readable in [insert language] if I wrote it :D

>>17
I don't see your assembly code there, so stfu

>>15
I lol, it's supposed to be an unreadable pile of crap. Who would actually try to implement it that way? :D

>>18
I lol, assembly lovers pretend their code is awesome and here I see a huge pile of crap that would be more readable in [insert language] if I wrote it :D

Is there any reason at all for Haskell?

>>20
copy pasta troll is made of fail

>>22

Announcing obvious failure is made of fail.

// c++ ftw~
#include <cstdlib>
#include <cstdio>
#include <ctime>
#include <cctype>

int main (int, char**)
{
    std::srand (std::time(0));
    int truth = std::rand() % 26;
    for (;;)
    {
        std::puts ("YOUR GUESS SIR: ");
        int guess = std::toupper (std::getchar()) - 'A';
        while (std::getchar() != '\n')
            ;
        if (guess >= 0 && guess < 26)
        {
            if (guess == truth)
            {
                std::puts ("YOU ARE A WINNER\n");
                break;
            }
            else
                std::printf ("YOU ARE %d LETTERS AWAY\n", std::abs (truth - guess));
        }
        else
            std::printf ("THAT'S NOT A LETTER\n");
    }
    return 0;
}

>>23
not if you're the first, and you were the second, gtfo troll

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