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A little help

Author:	Fubar [ Sun May 15, 2005 1:03 pm ]
Post subject:	A little help
I figured it out thanks Cervantes.

Author:	Cervantes [ Sun May 15, 2005 2:17 pm ]
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Welcome to compsci.ca. Your question sounds like homework to me. Know that we don't do homework for you. I hope that's not what you're asking. To help you, though: You'll definately need to know for loops. Getting the top and bottom lines of the z should be easy using for loops (actually, it's easier without for loops and with using repeat). Getting the middle line is a little harder. Use a for loop to go down from the top of the z to the bottom and the number of spaces to put before the '*' is directly related to how far down the z you are. Hopefully you understood that. If not... well, it's really not that hard. Thinking about it for a minute or two should do the trick. Oh, and if you don't know for loops, here's a link to the tutorial.

Author:

Fubar [ Sun May 15, 2005 2:42 pm ]

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well basically i couldn't get the middle part of the 'z'.

code:

var size : int
get size
if (size < 3 and size > 25) then
put "Invalid input"
elsif (size >= 3 and size <= 25) then
cls
for top : 1 .. size
put "*" ..
end for
% for decreasing mid : size - 2 .. 1
% put " ", "*"
% end for
for bottom : 1 .. size
put "*" ..
end for
end if

still working on it.
thanks,
Fubar

Author:

sockoo [ Sun May 15, 2005 3:27 pm ]

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i modified ur code to what i beleive you want .. lemme know

code:

var size : int
get size
if (size < 3 and size > 25) then
put "Invalid input"
elsif (size >= 3 and size <= 25) then
cls
for top : 1 .. size
put "*" ..
end for
locate(2,1) % MODIFIED (added in)
put"*" % MODIFIED (added in)
for bottom : 1 .. size
put "*" ..
end for
end if

Author:	Fubar [ Sun May 15, 2005 3:35 pm ]
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That's not what i meant ^^. Say the user inputs 3, it would draw this: *** ^^ ** so it looks like a 'z'.

Author:

Notoroge [ Sun May 15, 2005 3:49 pm ]

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code:

var size, count : int
count := 2
get size
cls
put repeat ("*", size)
loop
for i : 1 .. (size - count)
put " " ..
end for
put "*"
count := count + 1
exit when count = size
end loop
put repeat ("*", size)

You're welcome.

Author:	Notoroge [ Sun May 15, 2005 3:52 pm ]
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Wow sockoo, You're really over complicating it. If it works, it works though. Update: Haha, what a way to delete your post just in time.

Author:	Fubar [ Sun May 15, 2005 4:07 pm ]
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Notorage it doesn't work. this is how it's supposed to look: See how it's suppose to allign.

Author:

Cervantes [ Sun May 15, 2005 4:07 pm ]

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That's the connection I was getting at, Notoroge, between size and the position of the star in the diagonal line.
Now that you've given him the answer... let's improve it. Smile

Turing:

var size : int
get size
put repeat ("*", size)
for i : 2 .. size - 1
put repeat (" ", size - i), "*"
end for
put repeat ("*", size)

There's no need to use a loop like you did, when we know how many times we want it to execute and when we want a counter variable. Just use a for loop!

Author:	Notoroge [ Sun May 15, 2005 4:09 pm ]
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Dude, I updated it. Look at it. It works perfectly. Ah! I should have typed that in the Update as well. Look at it though. IT WORKS!

Author:	sockoo [ Sun May 15, 2005 7:00 pm ]
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Notoroge wrote: Wow sockoo, You're really over complicating it. If it works, it works though. Update: Haha, what a way to delete your post just in time. lol yes i deleted my post as i saw ur's works perfectly

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