Mario

This is the Problem Set week 1 of CS50x course 2019

Toward the beginning of World 1-1 in Nintendo’s Super Mario Brothers, Mario must hop over adjacent pyramids of blocks, per the below.

Let’s recreate those pyramids in C, albeit in text, using hashes (#) for bricks, a la the below.

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The program we’ll write will be called mario. And let’s allow the user to decide just how tall the pyramids should be by first prompting them for a positive integer between, say, 1 and 8, inclusive.

Here’s how the program might work if the user inputs 8 when prompted:

$ ./mario

      Height: 8

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      ##  ##
     ###  ###
    ####  ####
   #####  #####
  ######  ######
 #######  #######
########  ########

If the user doesn’t, in fact, input a positive integer between 1 and 8, inclusive, when prompted, the program should re-prompt the user until they cooperate:

$ ./mario

 Height: -1
 Height: 0
 Height: 42
 Height: 50
 Height: 4

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