In my opinion, topics like this should simply be locked-on-sight

I was introduced to programming when I was 8 years old. This was a time where "online" meant usenet and the like and few people had modems. It was several years before I actually got online and that was with AOL and Compuserve. It was at least five more years before I had actual internet access. I never went to college. I taught myself programming by devouring EVERY little bit of reference material I could find. I found what little I could at libraries and book stores and a great deal of intuition came into play. When I finally had internet access, it was at a time where nearly every programming concept was closed source and no one dared reveal how they did what they did. You didn't ask, because you knew you wouldn't get an answer. As such, it has only been in the past 8 years or so that I have been able to use the internet as a resource.

All that being said, the original poster is IN COLLEGE! A typical college library has more programming reference material on one single SHELF than I had access to in my entire life! It is simply inexcusable to waste such resources. There is no good excuse to come to this board on a deadline and expect any of us to do your work for you because of your inability and/or laziness. If you actually cared, you would have used the massive resources at your disposal to learn how to do what is, in fact, a very simple project.

Why is this thread still open?

I'm fine with assignment related questions as long as it is "hey, i'm trying to do xyz, but this particular piece of x doesn't works, i tried to y the x, but it fails too. do you have any suggestion?" Showing that you aren't asking for the whole thing, that you know what you're asking and that you at least tried to solve it before.

Exactly! I would be glad to help if I thought that the original poster had at the very least come up with something.

Moche, I tell you what. You pay me $1000 US (very reasonable rate, BTW) and I will gladly write this for you. If we're expected to do it all, it might as well be a job.

Exactly! I would be glad to help if I thought that the original poster had at the very least come up with something.

Moche, I tell you what. You pay me $1000 US (very reasonable rate, BTW) and I will gladly write this for you. If we're expected to do it all, it might as well be a job.

I know you're talking tongue-in-cheek here but I wouldn't even make that offer. This guy's doing a final exam, he clearly hasn't been paying attention during his lectures, he now expects to be handed a solution on a plate, he's taking umbrage that he wasn't handed one. In other words he wants to come out with a pass mark and potentially get a job that he has neither inclination nor aptitude to actually be doing. He's yet another a "plz send me the codez" merchant in the making, and we're doing the world a favour by preventing him from becoming one for real.

I wasn't serious. I spent years of hard work to get to the point that I am at. I love to help others and freely give my knowledge if it is applicable. I WILL NOT help someone take the easy way out. If he had actually tried and was stuck, I would gladly prod him in the right direction. I wouldn't give him the answer as it is for an exam, but I would help him come up with the answer.

What he is asking is for one of us to do his project without pay, solely for his benefit, at which point he will take full credit. And then there is the pesky cheating issue. Unacceptable.