C revision/clean up

Shark Sharkley: Admin; Posts : 522
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C revision/clean up

by Shark Sharkley Thu Nov 05, 2009 2:25 am

dont know if anybody knows or remembers C, but i need someone to check if my coding needs clean up or what.

here's the problem (by the way, we just did our section on the 'while' statement so ya):

Write a C program to convert Celsius degrees to Fahrenheit. The program should request the starting Celsius value, the number of conversions to be made, and the increment between Celsius values. The display should have appropriate headings and list the Celsius value and the corresponding Fahrenheit value. Use the relationship: Fahrenheit = (9.0/5.0) * Celsius + 32.0

here's my coding:

#include stdio.h <------- left the brackets out on purpose, wouldn't show that part

int main()
{
     // initialize variables
     int maxcount, counter = 1;
     float celsius, fahrenheit, increment;

     // prompt user for starting celsius
     printf( "Please enter the starting celsius value: " );
     scanf( "%f", &celsius );

     // prompt user or increasing value
     printf( "Please enter the maximum amount to convert to fahrenheit: " );
     scanf( "%d", &maxcount );

     // prompt user for increasing value
     printf( "Please enter amount to increase celsius: " );
     scanf( "%f", &increment );

     // blank line
     printf( "\n" );

     // Heading of Table
     printf( "CELSIUS FAHRENHEIT\n" );
     printf( "------ ----------\n" );

     // while loop
     while( counter <= maxcount )
     {
          if( counter == 1 )
          {
               fahrenheit = ( 9.0 / 5.0 ) * celsius = 32.0;
               printf( "%7.1f%13.1f\n", celsius, fahrenheit );
               counter++;
          }
          else
          {
               celsius += increment;
               fahrenheit = ( 9.0 / 5.0 ) * celsius = 32.0;
               printf( "%7.1f%13.1f\n", celsius, fahrenheit );
               counter++;
          }
     }

     return 0;
}