(Latest Revision: February 16, 2012)
FIRST CS 1500 SOLO PROGRAM
Making ASCII Figures
THE ASSIGNMENT:
Write a program that prints the output depicted below.:
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.--. .--.
: _ \/ _ :
_\/ \ 6 6 /
\__\ ' /
\'--'/ \__/_
/\ /\ \
/ \/ \
\ /
jgs _\ /_
(__\ /__)
.-""""""-.
.' '.
/ O O \
: :
| | goofy
: ', ,' :
\ '-.____.-' /
'. U .'
jgs '-......-'
---------------- the output ends just above this line ----------------
Your program must output everything depicted above, including all the blank
characters and all the blank lines. Please do not fail to notice that there is
a blank line before the 'heart man', and a blank line after the 'goofy
smiley'.
If you work smart with your editor it won't take long to write the program.
Ask me for some hints in class.
To re-familiarize yourself with the basic steps required for doing
a programming assignment, please refer to the
directions for the Hello World! practice assignment.
To see some sample code similar in structure to what you need to make
for this assignment, see
makeBee.cpp
Note About A Small Glitch: Some of the characters in the figures are
double-quote characters and backslashes. If you want to write a cout
statement that causes one of those special characters to be written to the
screen, then you have to precede the character with an escape character, to
warn the compiler not to interpret the special character with its usual
special meaning. C++ uses the backslash as the escape character.
For example, if you want to write this:
@@":-D"xx
to the screen, you
have to use a statement like this:
cout << "@@\":-D\"xx" ;
Notice that the second and third double-quote characters are preceded with the
escape character, to signal the compiler that we want those double-quote
characters printed, and that we DO NOT want them to be interpreted in the
usual way.
Also, when we actually want the program to write the escape character (the
backslash) to the screen, we place an initial backslash before the backslash
that we want to print, so that the compiler will know what we want. For
example, the C++ statement:
cout << "\\" ;
prints one single backslash (the second one), and this statement:
cout << "\\\\" ;
prints just two backslashes (the second one and the fourth one).
WHAT TO TURN IN:
You will be sending me two e-mail messages. Please follow these
rules:
- Always send me e-mail as plain text in the main message body.
Never send me attachments.
- Always use the exact subject line I specify for each
message. This will assure that I am able to find your message. You will
lose a significant amount of credit for this assignment if you don't use
the correct subject line. (Read more about this below.)
- Be very careful when you send the e-mail. You may use the
instructions in your
Hello World! lab exercise
for guidance. Of course, you will need to make the obvious changes to
those directions -- you have to use the correct subject line and
filename.
- Always send yourself a copy of each e-mail message you send to me,
check immediately to see if you receive the message intact, and
check within a few minutes to see if you have received e-mail notifying
you about an undeliverable message. You are
responsible for sending e-mail correctly.
Here is the list of things you have to turn in:
- At the start of class on the due date
place the following item on the "counter" in front of me
- a hardcopy (printed listing) of your program (the C++
source code). Make sure all the code is properly
formatted and that it all shows on the paper.
- Before midnight on the the due
date send me the following by e-mail:
- A copy of the source code (C++ code) with subject line:
CS1500Prog1f
- and a (filtered) script showing a test run of the program,
with subject line:
CS1500Scrp1f
Note that there are no spaces in the subject lines given above. It is
important that you do not insert any spaces.
The easiest way to make sure you are using the
correct subject line is to just select, copy, and paste it into the
appropriate location when you are composing the e-mail.
My e-mail address is:
john@ishi.csustan.edu
DUE DATES:
For the due dates, see
the class schedule.
In case you are interested, I didn't create the ascii art I used for this
assignment. I found it somewhere on the world wide web. You can do a web
search using the keywords "ascii art collection" if you want to see more
examples. There is a profusion.