ASCII picture generator program?

[pjr5043]

hello all, i am new to this forum and also new to c++. I am taking a programming course right now. My teacher gave us our first assignment and the description is this: i dont even know where to start on how to create a program that can convert this picture into an ascii picture.


Description : Write a program that displays a smiley face using any ASCII character, and covering more than 5 lines.

here is the image
https://cms.psu.edu/Spring2/200708SP...miley.png?8755

that is the image
any help is greatly appreciated

[Oldman47]

Go State.

If it's as simple as it sounds, he's just asking you to 'print out' out a picture using a character (many use '*') and cout, using at least 5 new lines to create the smiley. As many others will tell you, how would you do it on paper, or using your keyboard?

[pjr5043]

nice reppin the psu and scranton, i'm from dunmore

so basically just draw it using a character and cout it to cmd?

[Oldman47]

Yes, sounds like that's all he's asking. These programming courses start out very low level, so I wouldn't read more into that particular assignment.

[pjr5043]

i have the program written, i'm just not sure what ur put on int main.

right now it looks like this, and it wont run

#include <cstdlib>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    
    cout << "                   ***** " << "\n" ;
 "                          *           *" << "\n";
    "                    *                 * " << "\n";
    "                   *    888     888    * " << "\n";
"                      *     888     888     * " << "\n";
 "                     *                     * " << "\n";
  "                    *                     * " << "\n";
  "                     *    *         *     * " << "\n";
 "                       *     * * * *      * " << "\n";
 "                          *           * " << "\n";
 "                              ***** " << "\n";
                       
    
    
    
    
    
    return 0;
}

[Cpro]

cout << "                   ***** " << "\n" ;

The semi-colon ends the cout line.
So, you either need to delete all the semi-colons except the last, or add "cout<<" to the beginning of every line. Something like:

cout<<"                              ***** " << "\n" ;
cout<<"                          *           *" << "\n";
cout<<"                        *                 * " << "\n";
cout<<"                       *    888     888    * " << "\n";
cout<<"                      *     888     888     * " << "\n";
cout<<"                      *                     * " << "\n";
cout<<"                      *                     * " << "\n";
cout<<"                      *    *         *     * " << "\n";
cout<<"                       *     * * * *      * " << "\n";
cout<<"                          *           * " << "\n";
cout<<"                              ***** " << "\n";

A bit lopsided, but you get the idea.

[pjr5043]

i actualy have that smae thing now, but i run it .. and cmd comes up for like .2 seconds then goes away.. could it be the int main line?

[Cpro]

It seems to be working for me.
If you are using Microsoft Visual Studio, make sure you click "Start Without Debugging" instead of "Start Debugging".

[Oldman47]

There's nothing to stop the program from closing at present. Add cin.get(); before return 0 and that'll await input before closing out.

[pjr5043]

thank you that worked

[PЯO]

This topic is old, but there is a much better solution. You could just print out 1 but typecast it to char. The 1st ASCII character is a smiley face anyway :P. I made something like this a while back. But instead of giving a smiley face, you type in an ASCII number, and you get its corresponding character. But what he suggested was the easy way out, but works. PM me if you want the source code for this.