Hey guys,
First ever post here. and must say, I hope to learn and be of help to others on this forum.
As the topic suggest, I'm kinda finding the code below rather annoyingly confusing logically (Accelerated C++ (annoying examples or whaat)). The logic behind it makes me think way too much. It's from a book and this is the second chapter. This is a snippet of the actual code.
for (int r = 0; r != rows; ++r) {
//row=5; col=
string::size_type c = 0;
// invariant: we have written `c' characters so far in the current row
while (c != cols) {
// is it time to write the greeting?
if (r == padr + 1 && c == padc + 1) {
cout << greeting;
c += greeting.size();
} else {
// are we on the border?
if (r == 0 || r == rows - 1 ||
c == 0 || c == cols - 1)
cout << "*";
else
cout << " ";
++c;
}
}
cout << endl;
}
Question is: Since I'm finding this kinda confusing, does that mean I'm not cut out to be a programmer? Asking because, I understand the code, just don't see the point. Why the author decides to use the method he's using. I'm always finding myself going through the code line by line, to get what its doing. But at the same time, it is easy.
The bolded is the bit that's pissing me off. So many logic-ors maybe. Really don't know.
