Currency Conversion
 

I can relate to getting discouraged. I am curently taking IT through distance learning. I am in fundementals of programming right now and it is hard as ever. I feel like I am losing my mind because I really want to learn it, but I am not grasping it for some reason. The instructor is via the web and we communicate through a message board it is harder than if I was in a campus classroom. Right now we have to design a program for currency conversion project basically we have to convert the canadian currency to the U.S. dollar.
I have read the reading material over and over and still nothing.

I would check into private tutoring, but to be honest I just cant afford it.
Does anyone ahve any suggestions that may help me grasp it better. I am open to anything, any ideas I will try.

Re: Discouraged Computer Science Student
 

Please don't hijack another's thread, particularly if it is an old thread. If you have specific questions (such as currency conversion), start your own thread.

As far as the currency conversion process is concerned (at least in this case), it is a linear relationship. I the exchange rate for Bulbars versus Dollars is 2:1, then I get 2 Bulbars for every Dollar. Or I get a half-Dollar for each Bulbar.

Re: Currency Conversion
 

what do you already know? what are you getting stuck on? what don't you understand?

does the program need to use up to date figures for the exchange rate? can we hard code the exchange rate in?
this is a simple calculator application, just run the figures through a formula, updating the formula when the application is ran wouldn't be too hard, either.

Re: Currency Conversion
 

I would say ask your teacher, it isn't really much different than asking for help here. Both are online mediums. Main difference between here and your teacher is he's getting paid to help you, nobody here is. If he isn't helping you, then take it to the school's administration. If you can't get satisfaction there, then it isn't a good school and you should...do what you gotta do.

Re: Currency Conversion
 

The computer is not intelligent than you. It is only good in doing repetitive things. So unless you understand how you would do it, you cannot program the computer on how to do it. So the best thing is to try it by hand. Think what would be the information you would need, if you were to do it by hand. After getting the information how would you process it in paper? Do this a few times. Then you will see a common pattern. Write this pattern in a step by step method. That step by step process will be the algorithm. post the algorithm here and we will work it from there.