All tutorials I found so far never used getch(), cin.get() or even system(“Pause”) and believe me, I tried a lot on google… Hopefully this tutorial will help there somehow. Although I wish at school our teacher would do it either C or C# style as these are the languages we are supposed to learn. Using a C function is in my opinion not good…

About that system(“Pause”), I never heard about it (same with cin.get()) until I did some research during my vacations as I wrote small program to show off again
I guess I can call me lucky that my teacher doesn’t try to teach us system(“pause”)

@breaks: I didn’t change much, only added NicEdit…and it is working fine on my end…

PS: Second time it happened now, so perhaps you changed something with the commenting form but for some reason it keeps taking out the breaks?

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I talked with my teacher and I was right. We will talk about those arguments at a later date. At least I was able to show off my knowledge a little bit, gaining a few more plus points. Big thanks for that information, Slevi

Although we didn’t have it at school, yet, I will update my tutorial later and add the piece of information about these arguments. Of course you will get full credit for that part of the tutorial

Anyway, thanks to PHP I have quite an advance compared to my colleagues and…to be honest…I assume that I’m one of the best (if not the best) in the programming class at this moment

Long story short, I do know how a for loop works and I know what an array is. Thanks for your detailed explanation on the argv part.
Still, I will bug my teacher, maybe he will tell my colleagues what these arguments mean

And haha, if they weren’t gonna tell what it was anyways they could just as well have skipped placing them till they’d explain since they’re not needed to make your program run .

But it’s command line arguments, so if you’d start up your program with something like “test.exe bla whatever” you’d pick up the bla and whatever arguments.argv[0] is the name of your own application, argc is the count of arguments given. So if you want to display them you could do something like:

for (int i = 1; i < argc; i ) {
cout << argv[i] << endl;
}

Bit more advanced than the tutorial, but for if you’d already know what a for loop is and what an array is you should be able to understand that part quite well .

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First of all I’m repeating what I learn at school. The above program was the first we wrote to have a first look at the language. I myself know already about cin.get() and intend to introduce it in my tutorials at a later date. Especially as I have no clue when we will have it at school.

I assume that getch() is a C/C# function but I’m not sure on it.

Further, our teacher never told us anything about the variables in the main function, otherwise I would have included a brief description. On this one I’m as clue less as my readers. But I’ll ask my teacher about that as soon as I see him again because the meaning of those variables is also bugging me for some time now.

I hope I was able to clear things up a bit

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