creating a pyramid of letters using c

[new4cprog]

I just strating taking C class and still learning. I couldn't come up with the output like the one below:
A

ABA

ABCBA

ABCDCDA

ABCDEDCBA

Here is what I tried:

#include<stdio.h>
#define ROW 6
#define RSIZE 6
#define ASCEND 4
#define SPACE 6
#define DESCEND 4
int main()
{
    char ch,letter, column;
    int row;
 
    printf("Please enter an UPPERCASE letter:");
    scanf("%c",&ch);
 
    for (row = 1 ; row < ROW ; row ++)
    {
        for (column = 1; column < SPACE - row; column++)
        printf(" ");
         {
             for (letter = row   ; letter >= 1 ; letter --)
                printf("%c", ch);
                printf("\n");   
         }
    }
   fflush(stdin);
      getchar();
      return 0;  
}// main
 

Thanks for you help
shulapi

[numberwhun]

I just strating taking C class and still learning. I couldn't come up with the output like the one below:
A

ABA

ABCBA

ABCDCDA

ABCDEDCBA

Here is what I tried:

#include<stdio.h>
#define ROW 6
#define RSIZE 6
#define ASCEND 4
#define SPACE 6
#define DESCEND 4
int main()
{
    char ch,letter, column;
    int row;
 
    printf("Please enter an UPPERCASE letter:");
    scanf("%c",&ch);
 
    for (row = 1 ; row < ROW ; row ++)
    {
        for (column = 1; column < SPACE - row; column++)
        printf(" ");
         {
             for (letter = row   ; letter >= 1 ; letter --)
                printf("%c", ch);
                printf("\n");   
         }
    }
   fflush(stdin);
      getchar();
      return 0;  
}// main
 

Thanks for you help
shulapi

First, Welcome to TSDN!!! We hope you learn a lot during your stay.

Second, the next time you post, please be sure and choose a forum appropriate to the topic of your thread. The "Member Introductions" forum is not the place for a C programming question when there is a C programming forum.

I will move this thread over there now.

Regards and Happy Holidays!

Jeff

[sicarie]

Okay, so you have the first half of the program down. Why are you asking for just one letter? I'd say it looks more like levels - you put in the number of levels, and then it prints out the appropriate letters per level. For instance, the the first level prints out one letter, the second level prints out three letters, and the third level prints out five, fourth prints seven...

Are you seeing a pattern? You'd have your loop as it is now, but it would increment through the alphabet until it got halfway through, and then it would decrement back to its original spot.

[new4cprog]

First, Welcome to TSDN!!! We hope you learn a lot during your stay.

Second, the next time you post, please be sure and choose a forum appropriate to the topic of your thread. The "Member Introductions" forum is not the place for a C programming question when there is a C programming forum.

I will move this thread over there now.

Regards and Happy Holidays!

Jeff

Thanks Jeff. I will make sure that won't happen again. Just new to the forum.

[new4cprog]

Okay, so you have the first half of the program down. Why are you asking for just one letter? I'd say it looks more like levels - you put in the number of levels, and then it prints out the appropriate letters per level. For instance, the the first level prints out one letter, the second level prints out three letters, and the third level prints out five, fourth prints seven...

Are you seeing a pattern? You'd have your loop as it is now, but it would increment through the alphabet until it got halfway through, and then it would decrement back to its original spot.

Thanks for your help sicarie. Can you please clarify it a bit more for me. If you run the program the way it is, it only outputs the left half of the pyramid without changing the letters. For instance if my input is the letter E, the output looks like the following: My problem is gettting the full pyramid with ascending descending letters. I will appreciate for your help.
E
E E
EEE
EEEE
EEEEE

[Andr3w]

Well,
If you have the algo that generates the half-pyramid already it's pretty easy to make a "mirror image" of it and output first the mirror image and then the actual pyramid that you have there. It's also easy do that (output both pyramids at the same time) with a little more efford in these for loops.

Also and advice, in order to get rid of the annoying uppercase/lowercase letter issue (in the cases where you don't want the input to be case-sensive as it's this one) you can use the following in order to convert the input value (whether it is lowercase or uppercase) to uppercase or lowercase depending on your needs

char pKey;
 
pKey = getch();
 
// your check or whatever
if ( toupper(pKey) == 'K' /* can be anything else */ )
}
 // do stuff
}
 

also if you have while loops or anything else that repeats :p just to avoid continued calls to that function, if you don't change the value before the check do the following:

char pKey;
 
pKey = getch();
 
pKey = toupper(pKey) ;
// your check or whatever
while ( pKey == 'K' /* can be anything else */ )
}
 // do stuff
}
 

hope this helped!

[sicarie]

Well,
If you have the algo that generates the half-pyramid already it's pretty easy to make a "mirror image" of it and output first the mirror image and then the actual pyramid that you have there. It's also easy do that (output both pyramids at the same time) with a little more efford in these for loops.

Also and advice, in order to get rid of the annoying uppercase/lowercase letter issue (in the cases where you don't want the input to be case-sensive as it's this one) you can use the following in order to convert the input value (whether it is lowercase or uppercase) to uppercase or lowercase depending on your needs

char pKey;
 
pKey = getch();
 
// your check or whatever
if ( toupper(pKey) == 'K' /* can be anything else */ )
}
 // do stuff
}
 

also if you have while loops or anything else that repeats :p just to avoid continued calls to that function, if you don't change the value before the check do the following:

char pKey;
 
pKey = getch();
 
pKey = toupper(pKey) ;
// your check or whatever
while ( pKey == 'K' /* can be anything else */ )
}
 // do stuff
}
 

hope this helped!

Good advice, except I would never use getch() as it is non-standard and will break stuff. Stick with standard functions.

[Andr3w]

Well I said what I said because getch() is simple and convienient ;). Sure, you could also use scanf but oh, well it's up to you ;).

[new4cprog]

Well I said what I said because getch() is simple and convienient ;). Sure, you could also use scanf but oh, well it's up to you ;).

much appreciated Andr3w and sicarie