Little help with homework please!

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Forums should be for when you have tried to find the information you need but can't or have found the information you need but can't understand it. If someone knows what type they need to use or even what member of that type and they don't read the documentation for that type or member then they haven't really tried. When someone doesn't know what type or member to use then posting on a forum is a good option. We can then let them know what type or member to use and they can then research how to use it.

I'm not criticising the OP here, because they have obviously made an effort and they said that it's homework. It would not have been difficult to explain the principles required to make the code do as desired. The OP can then improve themselves by using their own brain to apply those principles and, if they can't, so be it. There's no rule that says that everyone has to get full marks for every assignment. If you have the information at your disposal and you can't make use of it then you don't deserve full marks.

It really comes down to two things:

1. Cheating is wrong.
2. Posting code to copy and paste is not the only, or even necessarily the best, way to help.

I will say no more on this off-topic matter.

<sarcastic>Did you give .paul. bad reputation too because of his "cheating"?</sarcastic>

... i am with .paul. on this and I believe that if people are interested in learning they will look at my code and see the methodology behind it

BTW jmcilhinney I also think that if people give bad rep to others who themselves believe that they are helping, it actually discourages people from being helpful in the first place, PM'ing would be a better solution than to give someone negative Rep.

Kris