ASCII Art is a graphic design technique that uses 93 of the 128 printable ACSII characters to create images.
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Chess board in JS
I've completed the small challenge in the eloquent JS book to create a chess board pattern:
Write a program that creates a string that represents an 8×8 grid,
using newline characters to ...
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CS50 pset-1 itsa Mario - make a half-pyramid using parameters from user input
I'm taking Harvard's introduction to computer science (CS50) course online, and I've written a program that satisfies a coding challenge but I don't understand what I did or how I can improve it. I'm ...
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Producing triangles of asterisks based on height
I have created a simple terminal program: it allows the user to enter a height and it will produce triangles of asterisks (*'s) based on the height.
I have just started learning C# as practice for my ...
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K&R C Exercise 1-14: Histogram of the frequency of types of characters
This is for K&R C Exercise 1-14: basically asking to create a program that prints a histogram of the frequency of types of characters. This is done with very basic C functions/knowledge as covered ...
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Printing multiple different shapes on the same line
Whilst scanning my C programming textbook, I saw this practice problem from a very early chapter:
I got to thinking that the problem probably wants you to draw each shape separately, which would be ...
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Creating and displaying a checkers board
I am learning clojure this week end and just starting to develop a simple checkers engine. I currently coded some basic functions to create the board and display it. I would love to get some feedback ...
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The ugly Christmas tree, Haskell style
Inspired by a few inverse tree ascii art F# questions, I wanted to give it a shot in Haskell.
As seen in the linked questions, the resulting program reads an Int ...
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xo squares in ASCII
When I finished this problem, I thought about how I initialized my loop iterator variables i and j. Originally I had ...
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World's worst Christmas tree
Inspired by this question, I decided to grow my own fractal tree.
The problem is: given an integer \$n\$, \$0 \leq n \leq 5\$, print the \$n\$th iteration of the fractal tree. The tree is probably ...
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Constructing a simple tree with ASCII in F#
This is just a basic HackerRank challenge I was working on to better understand F#. Its purpose is just to print a tree that has a straight 'trunk' of \$n\$, splits into 2 branches which diverge to ...
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ASCII art minesweeper clone
I wanted to code a small ASCII art minesweeper clone, to see what it looked like and how much code it needed.
The result is not so bad, under 80 new lines of code in total. It looks kinda readable to ...
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Output Tildes and Pluses
Inspired by this question, I wrote a program in Whitespace to output the following text:
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Printing patterns in Haskell
Write a function Int -> Char -> Char -> [String] that will create the appropriate pattern.
For example: ...
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Writing nested for loops to produce certain output
My task:
Write nested for loops to produce the following output with each line
48 characters wide:
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Printing an hourglass pattern
In a recent interview I have been asked to write a program to generate the following output:
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Infinite patterned ASCII dice
After seeing Pretty print dice faces from multiple rolls of multi-sided dices,
I decided to make an infinite ASCII dice generator.
There was one requirement, it to follow a normal dice face.
And so I ...
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Beginner Python Dungeon Crawler RPG
I made a game in python which plays a bit like old terminal based RPGs, though a lot more basic. I had originally intended to implement a weapons and armour system and thus remnants of this can still ...
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Pretty print dice faces from multiple rolls of multi-sided dices
In this question related to rolling multiple dices, the OP pretty prints for a single case where number of dices is less than or equal to 6. This led to me finding this code golf on "Draw dice result ...
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Sierpinski triangle from Pascal triangle
I tried to draw a Sierpinski triangle by shading the even number entries of the Pascal triangle. Could you please suggest improvements?
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Printing a staircase of text
So basically, a user is prompted to input a number of stairs and a staircase when a guy on it is generated. I know this is sloppy and my variable names are rough, I'm actively working to change them ...
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Printing large numbers, or not large but LARGE
I just started learning Java about a month ago. I'm wondering, what would an experienced developer do differently in the code below? As I learn to code, what direction should I be pushing myself?
I ...
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Shrinking and expanding square
I'm a computer science student who's just starting out with algorithms and their implementation. I wrote this code for a dynamically morphing square. I was wondering if I could get a review on it. I ...
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Printing a Φ pattern using * characters
So I am a newbie obviously, This was part of a small assignment I had to do for Uni, and it works alright. It just reads a number from the console and then outputs the Greek letter Φ (sort of). Sure ...
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ASCII generator
Today I stumbled upon CodinGame, a site with programming challenges. I'll describe one of them.
ASCII art allows you to represent forms by using characters. To be precise, in our case, these forms ...
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Printing out a diamond with a user-inputted size
I made a program that prints out a diamond with n lines. n is equal to whatever the user inputted. I know I overuse the ternary ...
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Using changeable column formatting to display table
When answering python tuition calculator v2, I got a little carried away, and started building a print_table() function which I don't like the resulting code for, ...
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ASCII art generator in C
I have written an ASCII art generator library. I was practicing data abstraction and code abstraction and I wanted to know if there is something that can be improved.
File tree:
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Printing octo-thorpes
Given a number, for example, \$6\$, this Python function should print hashes in the following format:
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This is the ...
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Printing an arrow of asterisks in Haskell
This code will print an arrow of asterisks, like:
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2D array to draw a letter 'F'
This is my code to print letter 'F' with nested loop 2d array. Are there changes that could be made in it to make it look better or more efficient?
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Print the length of words as a vertical histogram
I thought I'd give it a shot. What I came up with is from a culmination of my last two submissions, incorporating most of the feedback from this community, including better naming of variables, ...
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Print the frequency of characters as a horizontal histogram
Well, I've used some of the feedback from my last posting to improve how I wrote this program. Mainly using the void parameter in main, initializing my int array to zero without using a for-loop, and ...
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Print the length of words as input as a histogram with horizontal bars
Input
A list of words separated by any number of spaces.
Output
A horizontal ASCII art histogram, where the n-th line is composed by as many asterisks (*) as the ...
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Print the length of words as input to a histogram with horizontal bars
It works, but I'm sure there's a lot of improvement I could make here. I didn't try to get it to work for words over 10 characters in length, and I also didn't want to use built in properties like ...
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Draw an ASCII checkerboard
I'm a newcomer to C++, from C#. I wrote a program that prints an ASCII checkerboard with a side length of the number passed to it (link to original Code Golf question).
stdafx.h
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ASCII game Java applet
My code first creates a Point object. Then it creates a 25 x 25 array of ASCII in a string where _ marks a miss and the point's ...
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Vertical Histogram
I've been been working on a vertical histogram that prints an asterisk in place of a number in a certain range (say 1-10... and so on). My code is working as required.
Is there a better, simpler or ...
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Retro Rocket ASCII Art
Inspired by Nested for-loop ASCII art, I looked at building a more complicated ASCII art than just the normal 'diamond' and 'triangle' variations that crop up occasionally here.
The challenge: ...
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ASCII flow chart drawer
After some free ASCII flowchart drawer started charging money, I decided to write my own. Salient features are that you can draw a box (mouse down, mouse move, mouse up), then ctrlB will draw a box. ...
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Printing star greater symbol in Java
I need to print this in Java, but I feel that my code is too big:
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