C++ Programming Tutorial 43 - Creating a Menu

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[UCkFvZiCmKQUOsWpJTDg]

This is so good.
I'm doing an assignment right now, and this is exactly what I've been searching for all day.

[askjake]

You saved my college with this. I was feeling overwhelmed and didn't understand how to make a menu for some reason. You seriously just helped me out so much. Thank you for this video.

[joelt]

Keep it up, some people really enjoy how many episodes you post

[FM]

It's funny because professors just say make a menu and it's so easy. I didn't have a very good idea of what they were talking about, just knew I had to use a switch. Ty bro

[michealdosty]

You really made my day, thanks man. Keep on with your good work

[ThaColonel]

you explained this so much better and in more detail than my professor did! thank you !!!

[PunmasterSTP]

Men, u really went all-out on this tutorial! Thanks again so much for making it.

[REktSigMa]

Why does everyone start their main function to return a int? Like don't be the same as everyone else, why not start off with a class Main() with a void main() and make it describe something.

[PeterVanHertum]

I think the choice==0 condition will never be reached because of the return 0; in case of 0, so it might as well be a while(true) or a do...while(true) or you have to remove the return 0;

[Pranav]

What's the point of using a do while loop here? You can just a while(true) and it will do the same thing. You are returning when the choice is 0 anyways so there's no point in using choice != 0.

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

int main()
{
srand(time(NULL));



int choice = 0;



while (true)
{
std::cout << "1. Play Game" << std::endl
<< "2. Quit" << std::endl
<< "Input: ";
std::cin >> choice;


std::cout << std::endl;



switch (choice)
{
case 1:
game();
break;



case 2:
std::cout << "Thank you for playing" << std::endl
<< std::endl;
return 0;


default:
std::cout << "Error: Invalid Input" << std::endl
<< std::endl;
break;
}
}

return 0;
}

[MineCraft-sbzz]

So, how do I put the game in this code?

[laureven]

Question... how much this will slow down the code if after ":" inside CASE statement I use scope brackets. Example: case 1: {insideFunction1 (); insideFunction2 (); insideFunction3 (); break;}... will this necessary addition significantly affect the code??

[mod]

I am new to c++ but the one thing i noticed is you use the std:: before cin, cout and the older videos other people use do not. Is that something new in the newer versions of c++.

[tridipbarman]

Hey!! Could you send me a link to a website which gives me the function of symbols used in pairs like !=, ==, etc.

[ylllatifaj]

I love the tutorial but do we need an else statement if the input is 2, 3... because in that case the game is going to run the same way as typing 1 as an input

[alexxlucero_]

do you have a video on this for C programming?

[vicyoslinuxofficial]

Could you please tell me what's the name of this Visual Studio Code Theme? Thank you so much.

[dylan]

when I hit enter the console window closes. How do I do multiple inputs?

[FrostGamingHype]

can u teach me how to make a Install menu and a Graph in c++ 3D graph's and like a gameengine

[bobDotJS]

I've been learning C++ for a while now. I'm a full stack JavaScript developer by trade but I'm working to be well rounded.

First off, I've yet to see anything other than a console application. I switched from Windows to Mac OS when the M1 Macs came out. Visual studio on Mac OS doesn't support C++ development and I'm not going to waste my time learning xcode because I don't plan on using it for anything else. At least Visual Studio on Windows has visual C++ as an option.

So where do we go from there? When and how do we start building guis?