In my C programming books, I often use the directions on a shampoo bottle as an example of basic programming:<\/p>\n
1. Lather.
\n2. Rinse.
\n3. Repeat.<\/p>\n
Another real-life example of programming techniques happens in music. Specifically, cumulative songs are representative of loops. This type of song includes 99 Bottles of Beer<\/em> and the holiday favorite, The Twelve Days of Christmas<\/em>. This month’s Exercise is to write code that spits out the lyrics for The Twelve Days of Christmas<\/em>. And I’d like you to do more than simply write several dozen printf()<\/em> statements: The code must include a loop that outputs the lyrics.<\/p>\n As a refresher, click here<\/a> to view the lyrics, as well as see the output of my solution to the Exercise.<\/p>\n Please try this exercise on your own before you peek at my solution<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Coding the lyrics for a popular Christmas song with repetitive lyrics. Continue reading
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\nA cumulative song has repetitive lyrics. They’re fun to sing, but do get tiresome after a while. I believe I last sang the full rendition of The Twelve Days of Christmas<\/em> when I was 8-years-old. (That’s not counting singing along with Alan Sherman’s famous parody<\/a>. And even he doesn’t repeat every lyric.)<\/p>\n