Programming Problem, Please help!!!

Here's the instructions for a program I am having trouble with, please help if you can.

Instructions: Write a program that simulates the rolling of two dice. The program should use rand to roll the first die, and should use rand again to roll the second die. The sum of the two values should then be calculated. [Note: Since each die can show an integer value will vary from 2 to 12 with 7 being the most frequent sum and 2 and 12 being the least frequent sums.] There are 36 possible combinations of the two dice. Your program should roll the two dice 36,000 times. Use a single-subscripted array to tally the numbers of times each possible sum appears. Print the results in a tabular format. Also, determine if the totals are reasonable; ie., there are six ways to roll a 7, so approximately one sixth of all the rolls should be 7.

Here's what I have so far:


What I am having trouble with is figuring out how to set up arrays so it will display the different odds for each number (eg. 7 being the most frequent, and 2 and 12 being the least frequent). I also cannot figure out how to calculate the percentages for the last two columns (expected and actual), so if anybody can please help with that I'd very much appreciate it.

Btw, if you dont know anything about this, please don't comment with something like "I dont know anything about programming" or "let someone else help you, I'm stumped" or something pointless like that. No offense, but its a little frustrating to get a comment and think someone has a solution to my programming problem, but they are just saying "Its all Greek to me" or something stupid like that. Not to sound mean but this is serious business and I'm kinda worried that I'm not going to be able to figure this out and possibly fail Programming.

A Night to Forget

Well what to say.... Yesterday was a tragic day that will forever be remembered in history.

No it was not tragic because I had Dan, Andrew, Roy, Harris, Seth, John, Rebecca, Tim, Meredith, Katheryn, Bro. Kevin, Ryan, and my parents (and Nathan giving a call to say hi) in my living room. Or because we all had pizza and snacks. Or because we were all dressed in our Tiger blue and screaming and cheering at the top of our lungs. It was because the #1 seed Tigers played the slowest paced game I have ever seen, which resulted in a disappointing 45-50 loss to a not-even-worn-out-at-the-end referee crew, I mean UCLA team. There goes the season. There goes Carney. There goes Waki Williams. There goes the record-breaking 33 win season. There goes our first trip to the Elite Eight ever without Finch. There goes our chance for our first trip to the Final Four since I was 10 months old (March of 1985, in 1984-85 season).

O well.... maybe next year?

Come One, Come All, ELITE EIGHT PARTY!!!!

Memphis in the Elite Eight!!! YEA!!!!!

Party at my house Saturday to watch the game. Everyone in the Memphis-area is invited, or even if your not in the Memphis area and just care enough about me that you still want to come, your invited too. There will be pizza, drinks, and other snacks (nachos, peanuts, heck I might even fry up some funnel cakes). I've sent emails to all the G.C. guys but anyone else is welcome to come too. If you want to come please email me at joe444477@hotmail.com. I'll be at G.C. at 5:20pm to carpool out to my house in Cordova for the game at 6.

Thanks, everyone please come!!!!!!!!!! and please WEAR YOUR BLUEST OF BLUE!!!

GO TIGERS!!!

Facebook Braketology

Fierce competition, tons of smack talk, players cutting and diving at one another for the top, shocking upsets right and left. This is what its been like the past weekend..... No I'm not talking about the NCAA Tournament, I'm talking about our Facebook Bracket Competition. Here's the standings:

Player.......Bracket.....R1.....R2 .....R3.....R4.....R5....R6...Total
Andrew Beauchamp....view.......30.......44.......0.......0.......0.......0.........74
John Guess............view.......31.......30.......0.......0.......0........0........61
Joe Thompson......view.......35......24.......0........0.......0.......0.........59
Dan Beauchamp.....view.......28......28.......0........0.......0.......0.........56
Emily Kitchens.........view.......45......10.......0........0.......0.......0.........55
Derrick Kitchens.........view.......25......26.......0........0.......0.......0.........51
Stephen Rogers...........view.......28......20.......0.......0.......0........0.........48
Laura Kitchens........view.......27.......18.......0.......0.......0........0.........45
Colvin Franklin..........view.......26.......16.......0.......0......0.........0.........42
Ryan Poe................view......23.......14.......0.......0......0.........0.........37

So after a hard fought, gritty weekend, I have fallen from 1st to 2nd when Emily won an upset of Northwestern St. over Iowa that gave her the lead, but however faultered in the 2nd round as these upset teams proved themselves in capable of advancing to the sweet 16. However, in round 2 Andrew B. tore up the brakets with predicting the Wichita St. and Georgetown upsets. Even at the last minute John G. pulled up some serious points that put him over me as well, so I have now dropped to third (temporarily, of course).

The scoring system is based on 1,2,4,8,15,25 for each round, with upsets giving bonus points for the seed winning minus the seed losing, multiplied by the points given for the round (eg. say Team1 is a 12 seed, and they knock off Team2 who is a 4 seed, in the second round, if you correctly predict that upset, you get 8 bonus pts for the upset, multiplied by 2 because its the 2nd round, so you get a total of 16 bonus pts for that one game).

Btw, I am not posting this to embarrass anybody (lol Ryan), but just to display the skill and accuracy of prediction that prove why us Memphians are the kings of basketball.

Politics Test

You are a Social Conservative (28% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (25% permissive) You are best described as a: Totalitarian Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid Also: The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

Right where I belong, in between the Democrats and Republicans, yet opposite a Libertarian. Take that Ryan Poe, thinking I'm such a Liberal because I dont agree with all his die-hard right-wing views!!!! MUAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Also I just want to take this time to annouce, due to correctly predicting the upsets of Wisc.-Milwaukee and Montana, I am #1 out of 10 in the facebook brakets (along with the Kitchens, Andrew and Dan, Stephen R., John Guess, Colvin, and Ryan). My only incorrect pick so far was Marquette over Alabama. I am 25th ranked at the Univ. of Memphis!!!!

March Madness

Well for those who dont know, I graduated from the Univ. of Memphis a few years back with my bachelors in Bracketology. I now, being March, have an opportunity to put those skills to good use. My Final Four: Memphis (of course), Duke, Connecticut, and Ohio State, with a championship of Memphis vs. Connecticut and Memphis winning. Not really too many upsets this year, but if yall want to see my brackets here they are in an Excel file done for my dad's work.

Also, I just want to advertise a few blogs if yall dont mind. A few of my friends in Maryland now have blogs. Yall know Marcy Cook? Her and her boyfriend Andrew have a blog that you can go to by clicking here. Also, if any of yall know Colvin Franklin and Elsa Solek, they have a blog together that you can see by clicking right here. Thanks yall, just wanted to help them promote their new blogs, please go comment on them if yall can.

Whats going on

Ok I would like to sincerely apologize for my misinterpretation in my last post, that appears to have created much excessive, yet unnecessary, worry among some of my friends. No I am NOT suicidal, I'm not nearly that stupid. However, I'd be lieing if I told yall it didnt flash into my mind a few times. But I'm not stupid enough to consider it as any kind of option. What has really been bothering me is the way I have been treating some of yall. Yall are my friends and instead of being just a fun, outgoing, and friendly person, I start problems, pick fights, begin arguments, embarrass people, behave immaturely, get carried away with jokes and take them to a cruel level, and everything I do just makes things a problem for everybody and I hate it that its in my nature to act this way (on Tuesday a displayed a horrible example of this that lead me to make that post). Its something I have not worked nearly hard enough to fight through. I shouldn't be burdening you all with all of this, I want yall to be happy, and if I'm going to act this way then yall just should not be talking to me.

About the "I'm sick of life" part. Well just so yall know, I havent really opened up about a lot of this except to one girl that I am good friends with, but I feel it might be necessary to give yall a scratch of the surface about some of the problems in my life (not to burden anyone, though). My sister was just recently illegitimately baptized (meaning: baptized at a non-Primitive Baptist church) which my dad and I have been very upset about. I also have about 3-4 family members on one side of my family, who smoke weed, and I know at least 2 of them are jobless and have been for quite awhile (and arent really actively looking), its beginning to really become discouraging that I always have to argue with them about how I believe marijuana should be illegal, when they disagree and actually have facts to backup their counter-argument. I don't want to use their laziness as an argument, because it just seems cruel to point it out to them that they haven't had a job in years while I've been going to college full-time with holding a secure job for the last 3 and a half years. Also, schools been quite intense this semester, its been my hardest semester (academically) ever. I've got a lot more things going on too (emotionally), on top of life's everyday struggles and problems that God presents us with, but I won't burden yall with anymore of what I go through. I just ask that yall please pray for me now. I really should not have caused anyone to worry about me, or whats going on with me, just please don't let me bother yall with anything. I know true friends will listen, well yall've been doing a lot of listening lately, a lot more than any true friend would put you through....

Also, against the wishes of a couple people I have spoken to, no I will not delete my previous post, I feel it is necessary for it to be there. I am fully aware of what it might do to my reputation, but that presents no reason not to make yall fully aware of whats going on.

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Boot Camp

This weekend I was at Boot Camp down in TX. Yea I know, I'm a bit too old for it, but its Spring Break, everyone at GC was either going to BC or Birmingham, practically all my coworkers posted their shifts up because they'd be out of town, and of course most of the rest of my friends I like to hang out with have Spring Break plans as well. So what else was I going to do?

Anyway I'm really glad I did go because I met some really cool people and had a great time.

Here's some pictures from on the way there:

































Just so yall know, Logan did NOT pose for these. Actually he has no clue that I even took them.

So on the way there is pretty much just the guys in the back playing around on my laptop (playing NBA Live 04, NFL Madden 04, etc...) and my iPod. I spent most of the time talking to Britney and Lydia in the front.

There at BC I spent most of the time hanging out with people like Will Giles, Britney Price, Rebecca Brown, Gabbie Webb, etc. Well... some pretty crazy stuff happened there, and had it not been for good friends like Will and Britney theres no telling what would have happened, so I just want to thank them for everything. I'd have never had such a great time this weekend if they weren't there.

Well anyway, Sunday morning we all have to get up early and leaving by 6:30, to make it back to Memphis in time for the evening service where Bro. Guss Harder (sp?) from the Phillipeans preached. So we had our own sort-of church service in the van. It was really cool. I really enjoyed the singing, especially some of those songs with tenor and bass solo's (that was a new experience for me, I've never sang a solo in my life until then, I've never been to any of these singing school these others have been going to their entire lives). So anyway here's some pictures from on the way back:

















































So Aaron, Tyler, and Lydia sat in the back. They pretty much just picked on Lydia the whole time, but I think for some reason she enjoyed it. In the front Rachel and Mary (Logan didn't ride back with us) sat, and just acted like regular pre-teen girls, gossiping away between each other. So Britney and I are in the middle, attempting to having a rather sophisticated conversation. She's actually really cool and I'm glad I got to go on the trip and get to know her, as well as the others I mentioned above.

Well thats all to say about my weekend. It was great to see everyone. Take care yall, God bless.

My rather enjoyable day

Lydge is not the only one with new sunglasses for Boot Camp. Muahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!

Please read below for the story behind this.

It has occurred to me that when you fast, the Lord just might bless you to have a good day. Thats what he did to me today. So I wake up and do all the normal stuff (minus the eating) this morning. And for the first time in a few weeks, I have the opportunity to wear shorts!!! So I put on a pair, along with a tee shirt and a button-down shirt that I got in Pensacola, FL a couple years ago, that has palm trees and a beach on it so it gives a very summer look. I drive to school with my window rolled down the whole way, feeling the warm Memphis breeze of the 70 degree Memphis weather. I went to Programming class for a rather enjoyable class, where I'm actually the most talkative person in there. Then I went to Management class for a quiz that I had not studied at all for. No big deal though, after all this is Management, its not like its rocket science. So I'm pretty confident I aced this one. After another hour of Management after the quiz, my instructor lets us out about 15 minutes early. So I walk out to my car, did I mention to yall that I got a pretty good parking space!!! Right on the side of the street outside the FedEx Technology Center. So I drive towards home.... And stop at the Walmart, which is just down the street from my house. As soon as I walk in, I see this big stand of sunglasses for $10 each (well $9.95, but yall get the point). So I look at it, and see this one in particular type that I just love (pictured above). Seeing as I still had about $20-25 left on a Walmart gift card I got for Christmas, I decided "what the heck, these would looks nice at Boot Camp." So anyway I come home, study for a couple hours, go to church at Grace Chapel for a fun and entertaining service as always. And then on the way home I stop at this coffee shop just down the street from my house (as is the rest of the world) called Faith Music. And then come home, get on my laptop, and here I am now....

So, I know, it wasnt very exciting, and your all probably bored to tears from reading this (assuming anyone actually did), but thats how my day went. And with the semester I've had so far, this is definently one of my better days.

Yall who commented on my controversial pictures, please show me thats not what I have to do to get yall to read my blawg. I'd appreciate comments for posts like these, if ya don't mind. But anyway its all good. Have fun at Boot Camp everybody, hope to see lots of yall there.