my assignment is to create a coin game and I am a little stuck. This is my instructions put in a spoiler. Spoiler Coin Toss Program – Programming portion of repetition test Use a random number generator to simulate a coin toss. First use an input box to ask the user for the number of times the coin is to be tossed. Next set up a loop to execute that number of times. Each time you enter loop, use the random number next method to generate a random number. Assume that a random value of 0 is considered a Heads and a value of 1 is a Tails. So, if the random value is 0 add one to an accumulator named intNumHeads. If the random value is 1 add one to intNumTails. In addition, display in a list box the word “Heads†if the value is 0 or “Tails†if the value is a 1 for each iteration of the loop. (Hint: use a variable named strCoinToss) When the loop has finished, output the number of heads and the number of tails in appropriate labels on the form. Clear the list box and labels before the executing the program again. And I will insert my code in one sec in another spoiler (adobe acrobat is being weird about copy/paste on my laptop. think its a bug. So I had to go on my desktop to actually be able to copy the prompt but the coding is on my laptop.) Ok here is my coding Spoiler Option Explicit On Option Strict On Option Infer Off Public Class mainForm Private Sub exitButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles exitButton.Click Me.Close() End Sub Private Sub calcButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles calcButton.Click 'declare variables Dim number As Integer = 0 Dim count As Integer Dim tailscount As Integer Dim headscount As Integer Dim randomGenerator As New Random Dim inputArea As Object Dim message As String Dim title As String Dim coinside As Integer = randomGenerator.Next(0, 2) title = "Coin Toss" message = "Enter number of coins you want to flip" inputArea = InputBox(message, title, CStr(count)) 'determine if heads or tails are flipped Do Until number > count If coinside = 0 Then headscount = headscount + 1 Else tailscount = tailscount + 1 End If number = number + 1 Loop headsLabel.Text = headscount.ToString tailsLabel.Text = tailscount.ToString End Sub End Class
for a start, why is only one variable initialised to zero? secondly, if I remember right, the code for a randomiser is either rand or rnd, but its a long time since I've used VB. I've certainly never seen RandomGenerator.next syntax. new random also sounds like a user defined function, it's too ambiguous to be a built in one. also at no point are the output labels cleared.
new random is a built in function i never defined it, that is just how my teacher has shown us how to make a random generator im still pretty new Post Merge: [time]1294192988[/time] do I need another one to be zero?