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chris319:
This detail escapes me: What happens if a Daily Double is hit when a contestant has a negative score? Can they wager a positive amount of their negative score (IOW a contestant has -400, can they wager $400?)?

Chris L.: How do you like Visual C++?

Brandon Brooks:
[quote name=\'chris319\' date=\'Jul 9 2003, 10:06 PM\'] This detail escapes me: What happens if a Daily Double is hit when a contestant has a negative score? Can they wager a positive amount of their negative score (IOW a contestant has -400, can they wager $400?)?

Chris L.: How do you like Visual C++? [/quote]
They can always risk the board maximum.  Therefore, if one had -$400 in Jeopardy!, they can risk a grand, and in Double Jeopardy!, they can risk two grand.

Brandon Brooks

zachhoran:
If a contestant has a positive dollar score that is less than the maximum amount on the board in a round, the player can bet up to that maximum amount.

clemon79:
[quote name=\'Chris319\' date=\'Jul 9 2003,08:06 PM\']Chris L.: How do you like Visual C++?[/quote]

Well, see, here's what I thought I was gonna do: When I was programming in high school, I was taught Pascal. So I understand Pascal syntax pretty well. So I figured, hey, C++ isn't THAT far removed from Pascal, I'll pick up the Visual one, get a nice book, and I'll be writing Windows apps in no time.

After about three days two realities came to mind:

1) \"C++\" and \"Visual C++\" are two distinctly different programming techniques.

2) This is NOT the way to learn C++.

So I'm fumbling. This is the first time I've programmed in a Windows environment, and it's nothing like I've ever used before. Mind you, it's a really neat programming environment, but it assumes you know C++ going in. This evening I spent much of the night building the wager boxes for Daily Doubles and Final Jeopardy (easy, but involved to do it right), and hit the wall trying to figure out how to get whatever they type into that box back to the main form and converted into an integer so I can use it. Oh. THEN I have to figure out how to reprimand the user if they wager more or less than is legal.

A Dummies book may be in my future. :)

parliboy:

--- Quote ---Just offhand here: You know what I like about Jeopardy contestants?

Anyone moronic enough to wager \"$420\" on a Daily Double isn't smart enough to pass the contestant exam in the first place.
--- End quote ---

You say this in an era where college tourney contestants leave themselves with $69 when they miss Final Jeopardy?

You're getting old, man.

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