Well Im taking C++ for my degree and decided to mess with my professor.  We have to write a program to input 3 numbers do the average product, and sum.  Check it out(the orange)


//Jeffrey D  MW 8am.  Comp methods

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int sum(int,int,int);    //int prototypes
int average(int);
int product(int,int,int);
int main()
{
   int one;
   int two;
   int three;
   cout << "Please enter an integer: ";
   cin >> one;
   cout <<  "Please enter another integer: ";
   cin >> two;
   cout <<  "Please enter another integer: ";
   cin >> three;
   cout << endl;
   int arediculouslylongvariablename;
   arediculouslylongvariablename = sum(one,two,three);
   cout << "Sum: " << arediculouslylongvariablename <<endl;
   int anotherrediculouslylongvariablename;;
   anotherrediculouslylongvariablename = average(arediculouslylongvariablename);
   cout << "Avg: "<< anotherrediculouslylongvariablename<< endl;
   int thelastrediculouslylongvariablename;;
   thelastrediculouslylongvariablename = product(one, two, three);
   cout << "Prod: " << thelastrediculouslylongvariablename << endl;
   return 0;
}
int sum(int a, int b, int c)
{
   int sumo;
   sumo = a +b+c;
   return sumo;
}
int average(int a)
{
   int averago;
   averago = a/3;
   return averago;
}
int product(int a,int b,int c)
{
   int prodo;
   prodo = a*b*c;
   return prodo;
}

I got bored.  

When I took FORTRAN 800 years ago the grader lived across the hall from me. On one program that had 20 or so variables I wrote the program then changed all the variable names to peoples' names from the dorm. Ended up making for difficult reading.  

On another program I added 2 lines of comments for every line of code. I commented the comments.

Ahh, geek pranks.

hey, programming is fun! i wrote a small 3D game in VC++, using opengl library, as my diploma project yes, i`m studying programming. not such a big programmer though. more like n00b  :mrgreen:

ahh...good 'ol c++.

another fun thing to do, but will surely lose points if applicable, is just put all the code on a single line (stylisticly speaking). if the grader has to actually look at the code, he or she will love it!  

gahh. were printing out our souce codes right now. but as soon as our programs get more complex I'm gona have to try that.  hehe. I could see it now.

(raise hand)  "I need some help"
(teacher/lab aid walks over)  "what"
"I'm only outputing an integer but I need a double but I cant find where I declared it."

(aide) "well you only have one line of code"
(me) "I figured it would save space."  


hehe  

As you know, you don't even need those 3 long-named variables; you can just call the sum(), product() and average() functions directly - inside the cout statements.

But that's not the point, right?  

If you want to get fancy, you could garner some inspiration from the International Obfuscated C Code Contest.  Check out some of the Winning Entries from past years.

Quote from: JeffD
(aide) "well you only have one line of code"
(me) "I figured it would save space."  

Reminds me of a classmate who used ed instead of vi: he claimed that it was such a pain to switch from one line to another, that he wrote tighter code as a result