In late September and early October, I wrote a series of lessons on how the various printf() formatting commands are used. Now it’s time to put your skills to the test.
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When it comes to editing text, the concept of copy and paste is an old one: You select a chunk of text, choose its new location, then paste in the text. The surrounding text jiggles around to make room. Neat and tidy.
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The C language is rather weak when it comes to array functions. In fact, as far as I know, the standard library doesn’t contain a single array function.
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A Caesarian Cipher is one of the simplest, weakest forms of encryption. Supposedly developed by Julius Caesar, it’s a letter substitution cipher: A becomes C, B becomes D, C becomes E, and so on.
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The game of Tic-Tac-Toe is played on a simple 3-by-3 grid, what C programmers would call a matrix. It’s not The Matrix, of course, but it’s a simple array in which players can battle.
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For your June exercise, you need to concoct code that properly generates an ordinal number. Write a function that returns a string “st” “nd” “rd” or “th” that’s tacked on to any integer value from 1 through what-have-you.
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For your May challenge, write code that takes a two word sentence and displays the words in reverse order. For example, take the string Swap me and have the program spit out the text me Swap.
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