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Hey! I am really stressed out about my TURBO CPP project. I wrote a program on periodic table using file handling. when i compiled it crashed and not the project is unusable. I want to submit it at the earliest. I was hoping some one might drop their out projects. Thanks.

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Can you tell me what you meant by "drop their out projects"? If it's a spelling error, fine but do correct this so folk know what you are asking.

Also why Turbo C++? It's from 1990, not that old is bad but for students, my advice is to move to something current like GNU C++, Visual Studio (Community Version is free) so they are not dealing with a near 30 year old system that will likely instill bad practices.

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When I was in school, we were required to use Turbo C++. However, it was 1997 at the time.

commented: It was 1972 and my first programming as on a GE 210. Assembler, paper tape, core memory, switches. +15
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My first programming language was BASIC on my Apple IIGS when I was five or six years old.

We had just gotten a computer and I was really excited about it. I asked how to use it and my computer-illiterate mom said to read the manual, so I did. The manual said that if I press Ctrl + Open Apple + Reset then I could boot into a BASIC interpreter and came with a manual of some of the basic commands that you could use.

I just had a ball typing things like PRINT 12 + 29 = and having it tell me the same answers I came up with on my math homework. I never cheated of course. I was way too nerdy for that.

Anyways, that progressed to doing things like GOTO statements and simple but yet more elaborate programs in my elementary school years.

When I was 12 or 13, I convinced my mom to buy me Visual Basic 4 and I wrote a typing tutor. It was basically a Mavis Beacon clone as I was verrrrrry big on improving my typing speed at that time. I can now type nearly 200 wpm.

When I was 15 I took a class on C++ and then at 17, taught (with teacher oversight) two C++ classes for the required volunteer credit to get into the National Honor Society.

In college they continued to teach us C++, but since I knew it already, I tutored freshmen and sophomores through a university mentoring program and used that money to start DaniWeb.

When I was 19, I decided I wanted to start deep diving into custom forum features so I read and reread every line of code of phpBB, and later vBulletin, to teach myself PHP.

DaniWeb eventually became known in both the phpBB and later vB communities as a very heavily modded forum.

About 8 years after that is when I wrote DaniWeb on my own platform written from the ground up.

I still haven’t looked back from PHP.

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commented: Thanks. Always interesting to read origin stories. +0
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I forgot to mention that LOGO was somewhere there in the elementary school years as well.

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Also, post your code here so we can try to find the bug.

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Oh never mind. Just discovered this thread is 5 months old. I guess you already found the bug.

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