Extra credit 1.1

[Lynn Fairbanks]

Hi again. I was asked if I was going to attempt the extra credit for assignment 1.1, and at the time, decided against it, however I think it's in my best interest to just go for it. I need help though. I can't get it straight in my mind where I should begin. Anyone out there that can provide me with the simplest little bit of pseudocode to help me on my way? I'd like a little bit of help, but don't want too much.

[paul wheaton]

You write your name 100 times. Depending on the width of the name, figure out how many times you will write it per line. At every n'th iteration, stick in a line feed.

[David Junta]

I have a dumb question. I put in a counter and had it do a println every 8 times for the extra credit. The response was that I should make it flexible to accommodate for very short or long names. That makes sense, but I think I need to know how many characters I should cut off a line at. How many are there in a line? Does this number depend on what screen resolution people are using? If so, which is the lowest one for which we should design this application?

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

There are 80 characters in a line.

[landon manning]

Not necessarily...
While 80 characters per line is the default for many Window's DOS prompts, those settings can and are changed (I usually have mine set at 100 or more).
A truely verbose application would find out the DOS prompt's width and use that in the formulas for computing how many words go on a line. (however, I haven't figured out how to do that just yet; any suggestions?)

[paul wheaton]

For the purpose of this assignment, assume that your console has a width of 80 characters.

[soumya ravindranath]

Hello !

What's extra credit ?! I got the instructor's solution for 1.1 ( i could just manage a 'ouch !' when i saw it though ) and am on to 1.2, but i haven't come across this extra credit.... did i miss out on something ?
thanks,
soumya.

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

Nope, you did the extra credit version, Soumya. You got the names all in columns and not split at the end of the line.