ASCII Figures

(Latest Revision: February 11, 2013)

FIRST CS 1500 SOLO PROGRAM
Making ASCII Figures

THE ASSIGNMENT:

Write a program that prints the output depicted below.:


--- the output starts just below this line, but does not include this line ---

                 (\/)
                  \/
          (\/)   .-.  .-.
           \/   ((`-)(-`))
                 \\    //   (\/)
                  \\  //     \/
           .="""=._))((_.="""=.
          /  .,   .'  '.   ,.  \
         /__(,_.-'      '-._,)__\
        `    /|             |\   `
            /_|__         __|_\
              | `))     ((` |
              |             |
        jgs  -"==         =="-


          .--.  .--.
         :  _ \/ _  :
      _\/ \ 6    6 /
        \__\  '   /
            \'--'/ \__/_ 
            /\  /\    \ 
           /  \/  \
           \      /
      jgs  _\    /_
          (__\  /__)

--- the output ends just above this line, but does not include this line ---

Your program is required to output everything between the delimiting lines above, but not the delimiting lines themselves. Therefore, the program must print a blank line first, then the figure of the two birds, then two more blank lines, then the figure of the heart, and then a final blank line. If you have any doubts about the meaning of the directions, please ask me to explain further.

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:

()()""++\--8

to the screen, you have to use a statement like this:

cout << "()()\"\"++\\--8" ;

Notice that the second and third double-quote characters in the example cout statement above are preceded with the escape character, a backslash. The backslash is the character 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. That's why there are two backslashes in a row in the cout statement above.

Another example:

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. If the paper has edges for the printer tractor, burst them before giving them to me, like we practiced in the first lab.
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.

FIRST CS 1500 SOLO PROGRAM Making ASCII Figures

FIRST CS 1500 SOLO PROGRAM
Making ASCII Figures