Looking for some help understanding enums and utlilizing enums/arrays in constructs or objects.

[prisma path]

Main.cpp

int main() {
    unsigned int i;
    string id;
    string f;
    string l;
    string email;
    int age;
    int daysToComplete[3];
    string d;
    int t = 0;


    cin >> id;
    cin >> f;
    cin >> l;
    cin >> email;
    cin >> age;
    for (i = 0; i < 3; ++i) {
        cin >> daysToComplete[i];
    }
    cin >> d;

    if (d == "SECURITY") {
        t = 0;
    }
    else if (d == "NETWORK") {
        t = 1;
    }
    else {
        t = 2;
    }

    DegreeProgram deg = static_cast<DegreeProgram>(t);

    Student s1(id, f, l, email, age, daysToComplete, deg);

    s1.PrintInfo();


}

[modern crown]

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[prisma path]

Student.H

#ifndef STUDENT_H
#define STUDENT_H

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include "degree.h"
using namespace std;


class Student {
public:
    Student();
    Student(string studentID, string firstName, string lastName, string emailAddress, int age, int daysToComplete[3], DegreeProgram degree);

    string GetStudentID();
    string GetFirstName();
    string GetLastName();
    string GetEmailAddress();
    int GetAge();
    int GetDaysToComplete();
    DegreeProgram GetDegree();

    void SetStudentID(string studentID);
    void SetFirstName(string firstName);
    void SetLastName(string lastName);
    void SetEmailAddress(string emailAddress);
    void SetAge(int age);
    void SetDaysToComplete(int daysToComplete[3]);
    void SetDegree(DegreeProgram degree);
    void PrintInfo();

private:
    string studentID;
    string firstName;
    string lastName;
    string emailAddress;
    int age;
    int daysToComplete[3];
    DegreeProgram degree;

};
#endif

Student.CPP

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include "student.h"
#include "degree.h"
using namespace std;


Student::Student() {}
Student::Student(string studentID, string firstName, string lastName, string emailAddress, int age, int daysToComplete[3], DegreeProgram degree) {
    this->studentID = studentID;
    this->firstName = firstName;
    this->lastName = lastName;
    this->emailAddress = emailAddress;
    this->age = age;
    this->daysToComplete[3] = daysToComplete[3];
    this->degree = degree;
}

void Student::SetStudentID(string studentID) {
    this->studentID = studentID;
}
void Student::SetFirstName(string firstName) {
    this->firstName = firstName;
}
void Student::SetLastName(string lastName) {
    this->lastName = lastName;
}
void Student::SetEmailAddress(string emailAddress) {
    this->emailAddress = emailAddress;
}
void Student::SetAge(int age) {
    this->age = age;
}
void Student::SetDaysToComplete(int daysToComplete[3]) {
    this->daysToComplete[3] = daysToComplete[3];
}
void Student::SetDegree(DegreeProgram degree) {
    this->degree = degree;
} 
void Student::PrintInfo() {
    cout << studentID << "\t";
    cout << "First Name: " << firstName << "\t";
    cout << "Last Name: " << lastName << "\t";
    cout << "Email: " << emailAddress << "\t";
    cout << "Age: " << age << "\t";
    cout << "daysInCourse: " << "{" << daysToComplete[0] << ", " << daysToComplete[1] << ", " << daysToComplete[2] << "}";
    switch (degree) {
    case 0: cout << "DegreeProgram: SECURITY";
    case 1: cout << "DegreeProgram: NETWORK";
    case 2: cout << "DegreeProgram: SOFTWARE";
    }

}

string Student::GetStudentID() {return studentID;}
string Student::GetFirstName() {return firstName;}
string Student::GetLastName() { return lastName; }
string Student::GetEmailAddress() { return emailAddress; }
int Student::GetAge() { return age; }
int Student::GetDaysToComplete() { return daysToComplete[3]; }
DegreeProgram Student::GetDegree() { return degree; }

Degree.h

#ifndef DEGREE_ENUM_H
#define DEGREE_ENUM_H
#include <map>
enum DegreeProgram { SECURITY, NETWORK, SOFTWARE };


#endif

Sorry for the messy Main.CPP file I have been struggling on 2 parts

1. I need to utilize a seperate degree file with an enum to store the three degrees.
2. I need to specifically use an array of integers to store 3 data values.

Example data: A1 John Smith [e-mail] 20 35 40 55 SECURITY

What am I doing incorrectly that is causing 35, 40 and 55 to return 85342942

additionally how do I take a string and point it to the enum, maybe I am not utilizing the enum correctly?

[storm marten]

Pay attention to your setter function for the array

Do you see anything wrong with it?

There is another issue as well that could be solved by using std::array instead of a C-style array

[prisma path]

The thing that stands out to me is passing the value of the size of the array into the setter function

[storm marten]

I meant more with the body of the function

[prisma path]

Sorry I am newish to c++ if I don't catch on quickly. I do appreciate the help though.

So just working through the function, void seems to be correct because we are not returning a value

[storm marten]

No worries, I just want to help you focus on the right part and help you along to solving it

[prisma path]

ohh wait ok I see

so I am esentially setting the 3rd index = to the 3rd index and that is it

[storm marten]

Right but there is no third index

[prisma path]

oh holy crap

its just 0 1 and 2

Whats funny is I even wrote it right here

[storm marten]

Do you remember learning of a way to easily assign values to an array

[prisma path]

Yeah like array[0] = 55

[storm marten]

You could manually do it, but you’ll have to do like

this->daysToComplete[0] = daysToComplete[0];

this->daysToComplete[1] = daysToComplete[1];

Imagine you had 100 or a thousand stuff in the array

It would take forever

Hint:
|| It’s a type of loop ||

[prisma path]

Ok without looking at the hint, my guess would be

for (i = 0; i < 2; ++i){
  cin >> userInput
  daysToComplete[i] = userInput

}

[storm marten]

i < 2

[prisma path]

Oh yeah it would have to be 3

[storm marten]

How many times you think this will run?

Yea

[prisma path]

jfc I just did multiple leet code challenges using these and I got comfortable with them idk why I didn think to use it here.

[storm marten]

If you made projects while using these topics you learned they would have stuck a lot more. Leetcode is pretty bad for a lot of reasons

[prisma path]

Awesome that worked perfectly!

[storm marten]

Nice!

[prisma path]

Thanks again for the help, much appreciated.

[modern crown]

@prisma path Has your question been resolved? If so, type !solved :)

[storm marten]

Np

[prisma path]

!solved