First time programmer, needs advice!

[District]

Hello! I've been reading a few of the postings here and noticed that everyone here seems well-versed in C++. That being said, I was hoping you could lend me some of your expierence. I'm currently taking a C++ course and have been assigned the task of writing a small program. All this program does is open two files, reads them, writes them both to a new file, then closes them. Oh yeah, and the data limit is 72 characters.

The two files I'm supposed to use, can be found

http://www.allencc.edu/instruct/racey/cis220/address.txt

and

http://www.allencc.edu/instruct/racey/cis220/letter.txt

I've gotten started on the program a little, but am at a loss as to how to proceed. And when I say a little, I mean something like this:

main()
{
}

So, any help would be appreciated!

 

[icrf]

always start with pseudo-code, maybe something a little like:

main()
{
//open output file
//open address file for input

//loop until end of address file
    //read from address file
    //write to output file
//close address file

//open letter file for input

//loop until end of letter file
    //read from letter file
    //write to output file
//close letter file

//close output file
}

Break up a program into separate tasks, then you figure out how to do each task and impliment and test one at a time (use lots of print statements (cout's)).

Hope this helps kick you off in some direction. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
...but I'm just a C man trying to see the light