CCC 2003 Stage1: J1: Trident

[Tony]

A trident is a fork with three tines (prongs). A simple picture of a trident can be made from asterisks and spaces:

code:

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In this example, each tine is a vertical column of 3 asterisks. Each tine is separated by 2 spaces. The handle is a vertical column of 4 asterisks below the middle tine.

Tridents of various shapes can be drawn by varying three parameters:
t the height of the tines
s the spaceing between tines
h the length of the handle

for above example we have t=3, s=2 and h=4

You are to write an interactive program to print a trident. Your program should accept as input the parameters t, s, and h, and print the appropriate trident. You can assume that t,s,h are each at least 0 and not larger then 10.

Sample input/output
Enter tine length:
4
Enter tine spacing:
3
Enter handle length:
2

code:

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Solution by JSBN

code:

var t : int var s : int var h : int put "Enter tine length:" get t put "Enter tine spacing:" get s put "Enter handle lenght:" get h for i1 : 1 .. t     for i2 : 1 .. 3         put "*" ..         for i3 : 1 .. s             put " " ..         end for     end for     put "" end for if s = 0 then else     for i4 : 1 .. (5 + s * 2) - 2         put "*" ..     end for     put "" end if for i5 : 1 .. h     for i6 : 1 .. s + 1         put " " ..     end for     put "*" end for