Programming Fundamentals

Information

  • This page contains additional revision exercises for week 01.
  • These exercises are not compulsory, nor do they provide any marks in the course.
  • You cannot submit any of these exercises, however autotests may be available for some them (Command included at bottom of each exercise if applicable).

Exercise — individual:
Print a Simple Diamond

Create a program simple_diamond.c that prints a simple diamond shape that uses / and \ for the outline.

Examples

dcc simple_diamond.c -o simple_diamond
./simple_diamond
/\
\/

When you think your program is working, you can use autotest to run some simple automated tests: 

1511 autotest simple_diamond

Exercise — individual:
Print a Simple Triangle

Create a program called simple_triangle.c which prints a triangle.

Examples

dcc simple_triangle.c -o simple_triangle
./simple_triangle
    ^
   / \
  /   \
 /     \
/_______\

When you think your program is working, you can use autotest to run some simple automated tests: 

1511 autotest simple_triangle