(Latest Revision: September 11, 2012)
FIRST CS 1500 SOLO PROGRAM
Making ASCII Figures
THE ASSIGNMENT:
Write a program that prints the output depicted below.:
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)
( .---.
) /////\\
_(_ ((c` .(
//o\\ )))_ _/
((/ ;_ __
/ \___(__)
/ (_
\____/\
/___\\_\
/""|""\\_\_
jgs / | \(__\
_
( \
| ;
; | ,-""""-.-""-.
\ \ / / \
\ '--' ) \-""""-.
\ a ; | '.
'.__ | / \
'-. ; _.' \
'-,/ / |\\
<___.;` | \\
/`| \ |`\
/ | /-----.,_ \ \|
/ | | | ;. \
'../| \ / | \ |
jgs \.../ \.../ \../
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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 first figure, and a blank line after the second
figure.
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 code you could write to solve
this problem, 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 a double-quote character or backslash character to be
written to the screen, then in your code 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 in the example above
are preceded with the escape character, a backslash like the one in this box:
[ \ ]. The placement of the escape character tells the compiler that
we want our program to write the second and third double-quote characters on
the computer screen, and that we DO NOT want them to be interpreted in the
usual way. (Usually a double-quote character in a cout statement is used to
delimit the start or the end of the string we want the program to write to the
screen.)
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. For example, if you are going to send the e-mail in the
manner described in the
Hello World! lab exercise,
then you would just paste the subject line into the appropriate part of the
command you type to send 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.