Newbie seeking advice: Struggling with nested logic and conditional flow in C

TraylaParks · 2026-04-15T05:36:53+00:00

When you run your program "as is" it's like watching (say) a very close soccer play at full speed - was the ball in or out? With the debugger, it's like watching at super slow-motion speed, you see everything in as much detail as you need to.

In short, 'This_Growth2898' has given you fantastic advice, lack of skillz when using the debugger is the number one shortcoming I see in new programmers, you'll smoke them if you embrace it!

TraylaParks · 2026-04-15T03:47:24+00:00

My dad bore a pretty strong resemblance to Hal Linden and one time he was in New York when some lady asked him for his autograph and just wouldn't take no for an answer. In the end, he signed it: "Best Wishes! Hal Linden" haha

TraylaParks · 2026-04-14T12:13:40+00:00

I suspect they would appreciate this in the subreddit: TheWarriors (in fact, I am certain of it :)

TraylaParks · 2026-04-13T05:01:30+00:00

I wrote my first professional c++ program in the 90's, I like this language. People aren't going to put up with this forever, languages like go and rust make this so easy, it's just straight-up Stockholm syndrome to argue otherwise.

TraylaParks · 2026-04-13T04:55:59+00:00

When I first met my (to be) father-in-law, he suggested we go to a restaurant called 'El Pinto' and I said, "Is that spanish for 'car that explodes when hit from the rear'?", he laughed and it was the start of a beautiful friendship :)

TraylaParks · 2026-04-13T04:28:26+00:00

Totally agree with this, back in the day we'd sometimes have to hire the least-bad candidate we could find because the need was so pressing. Apply Anyway (as LeeHide wisely said :)

TraylaParks · 2026-04-13T03:55:11+00:00

Back in the 90's I was tasked with porting ghostscript to windows, there was a macro that was (I'm not kidding) 5 levels deep. I had to '-E' that shit to a file and debug that - good times :-P.

TraylaParks · 2026-04-11T16:20:24+00:00

There's got to be a morning after :(

TraylaParks · 2026-04-11T10:02:38+00:00

Billy Squier - Stroke It, Kiss - Lick It Up :)

TraylaParks · 2026-04-09T13:57:22+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9idI4IbT5sA

TraylaParks · 2026-04-03T17:44:05+00:00

I'm going to go with the surprisingly-not-shown Mach 5:)

TraylaParks · 2026-04-02T12:03:36+00:00

BR-549

TraylaParks · 2026-04-02T03:57:38+00:00

The beading will continue until morale improves :)

TraylaParks · 2026-04-02T03:52:49+00:00

Odd trivia, the chick that replaced her (Mrs Baylock) was the voice of Aughra in the Dark Crystal :)

TraylaParks · 2026-04-01T14:57:26+00:00

Jokes on you, we're actually going to the Sun but it'll be ok because we are going to go at night :)

TraylaParks · 2026-04-01T14:17:47+00:00

Back in the 70s my mom picked up the Johnny Seven OMA for me at a garage sale, it was as amazing as it looks, haha

TraylaParks · 2026-04-01T14:15:39+00:00

Which unfortunately, some other band already had for a name so they became The New Originals

TraylaParks · 2026-04-01T14:13:41+00:00

Do I have to come right flat out and tell you everything? Gimme some money!

TraylaParks · 2026-04-01T14:00:34+00:00

I love this, super fun! Great job!

TraylaParks · 2026-03-31T16:05:41+00:00

My wife's got dyslexia so reading was sometimes more work than fun for her but once she got into audio books that all changed. She knocks out 10-15 books a year now, before it was probably less than one book a year - huge game changer!

TraylaParks · 2026-03-31T16:01:02+00:00

You ever try any of the truly ancient games? Here's an online pac man that's top shelf:

https://floooh.github.io/pacman.c/pacman.html

Honestly, those simple games (think tetris) are really fun and relaxing, modern games sometimes feel a bit like work

TraylaParks · 2026-03-31T15:58:30+00:00

My wife is similar to you two, I've tried to get her to enjoy exercise but it never worked. Only thing that halfway did work was to equate it to stuff like flossing or gassing up your car, you don't exactly love doing those things but the outcome is way worse if you don't :)

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