Modest Program Part 1

Hello World,

For my final blog post I am going to be making a modest program utilizing templates in C++. Templates, as explained in my last post, are basically objects. These templates are one of the main features that differentiates C++ from its counterparts like C and objective C. As explained earlier, the main feature that differentiates C++ from C is the fact that C++ is an object oriented programming language.

Templates are really important when needing to do code quicker and rather more efficiently. You can do things with templates like make arrays or swap numbers. Rather than making a new array or swapping in the main code, you could just call the template.

Today, I shall be dividing this post into two sections. I shall make this post focus on what I am going to do. The next post I shall implement the code and describe what each part is doing.

The program I shall create is a carnival program. It is little Timmy’s birthday party and he gets to invite 5 of his closest friends. He chose to invite Joe, Matt, Mark, Kristen, and Jenna. These friends shall be stored as strings and called when needed. Timmy and all his friends decided that the only way they can get all the prizes they want at the carnival is to put all their tickets together. Each kid has a certain number of tickets, but technically when they put all their tickets together, they shall each have a large amount. Every time a child wishes to exchange the tickets for a prize the number of total tickets shall decrease. The template shall take place by showing a clear swap of the tickets for the prize. The clerk shall receive tickets in exchange for a prize. The swap shall be a swap of the prize which will be an item and the prizeWon which shall be an empty string. Once the swap occurs I shall show that the child now has the prize, lost the tickets and then swap those two things back to make it possible to win them a second time though.

The program shall show all of the prizes in a list and shall display the prizes won at the end. It shall also display how many tickets the clerk now has. If the program is not finished, meaning that the children still have remaining tickets, it shall call itself recursively to start the program over again until the kids are out of tickets or do not have enough tickets to purchase what they wish.

More information about how each aspect of the program shall be in a follow-up post shortly.

Thanks!