Programming Assignment 1

Due: Week of Jan. 16 before lab

Description

In this assignment, you are to use basic System.out.print and System.out.println commands to create ASCII (text) art! Be creative!

Details

• Name the file and program AsciiArt.java.
• The top line of your ASCII art should be the title of your piece.
• After this the art is up to you! Recommendations:
  • Some characters, e.g. backslash, need to be escaped. Details here.
  • I recommend looking up an Ascii table on google if a character does not exist on the keyboard. Can also use unicode letters!
• Grade is based on complexity of the image.
  • Complexity is a combination of size and variation of white space and characters to create depth in an image.
  • Recommended size is >20x10 image
  • Check with instructor on approximate grade before turning assignment in, if you wish.
• Bonus
  • (5 points) Incorporating user input into your image. Use comments in your program describe what you should input, e.g., a word with four letters.
  • (up to 10 points) Very artistic and complex images can earn bonus!

Example

You may find an example Java program here. Note the spider web here would be a mid-low B due to low complexity.