Monday, July 19, 2010

Weekend fun with Simplest Pyramid Generator!

I just get bored during this weekend and try to solve some puzzle that my friends mentioned on my email last week. It is making a sort of Pyramid but only with odd numbers. So, what we have to do is try to make a simplest pyramid generator program to generate a pyramid with a single argument given. For example:

C:\pyramid.exe 7

would generate a pyramid like this:


I know that there is some script like Python, Ruby and so on can make a single line of code to generate this pyramid. But the condition is not to use a special function or library. I just solved this puzzle within 3 hours with Visual C++ 6.0. Here it is a single long line of code:

void main(int r,char * g[]){for(int i=((atoi(g[1])+1)/2);i>0;i--){for(int j=i-1;j>0;j--)cout<<" ";for(int k=1; k<=(((atoi(g[1])+1)/2)-i+1);k++)cout<<"*";for(k=(((atoi(g[1])+1)/2)-i+1)-1;k>0;k--)cout<<"*";for(j=i-1;j>0;j--)cout<<" ";cout<<"\n";}}

Thus, this code still need to insert a header file <iostream.h> and <stdlib.h> for print the result and the atoi function for converting ASCII to Integer from the given argument. But this is standard for C programming. All scripting language for sure need all these stuff for the script that communicate with core engine. Coding with C++ might be various depend on your platform and compiler.

Enjoy...

3 comments:

  1. hahah... sorang lagi dah siap..

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  2. aik.. ada game ke abg xanda? teringat sem1 dlu.. buat menda nilah... pastu buat yang segi tiga terbalik plak.. XD

    saudara alternator, kongsilah skit ilmu kaji malware..XD

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  3. hehehe, aku dulu buat pakai c++ nih, piramid terbalik semua ada..

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