Originally posted by Andy Clark:
I know how to do all the calculations on paper. It's just the whole telling the computer how to do it is a little taxing on my behalf.
sorry - i just wasn't sure from your original post where you needed the help.
if you know how to do it on paper, that's 70% of the battle. my advice would be to actually write down the steps. be very general. this becomes your outline. Then, go back and expand a little on each step. then refine those steps.
Also, try just doing one conversion - say, for example, from base 10 to base 7 (or any other one you feel comfortable with). once you have it broken down pretty far, start looking to see how you can generalize it - what would you have to change to make it base 10 to base 12?
but most important, when you sit down to write your code, DON'T try and do everything at once. Yes, i said that before, but it deserves to be repeated over and over. do one piece at a time. maybe just start with a program that gets the input, prints "i'm doing the conversion", then prints some output (possibly to verifiy that you REALLY did get the input correctly).
once that is done, start trying to code the conversion. continually
test everytime you write a few lines. go back and retest the stuff you already did to make sure you don't break it.
And when you get stuck on something specific, post your code here and ask a specific question - you're much more likely to get help that way than with a broad "I don't know what to do" kind of question.