UMBC CMSC201, Computer Science I, Fall 1994 Sections 0101, 0102 and Honors

Thursday November 10, 1994

Handouts (available on-line): Project 4, Quiz 2

Topics Covered:

• A closer look at characters and strings. Our first program generated an acronym from the user's input. The output shows that the program works if the user's input does not begin with a space, and if each word is separated by only one character. Otherwise the program gives mangled output. The second program corrects these problems. Sample run.
• Our next task is to write a program that detects if the user's input is a palindrome. The first program uses a for loop to produce the correct output. The second program uses a while loop to accomplish the same task. Finally, the third version of the program checks to see if the user's input is equal to its reversal using the reverse function.
• We looked at a more complicated program using characters and strings. This program prints out the first word in the users input that starts with a vowel. The program also illustrates the use of the SubString function from the strlib.h interface. Sample run.
• Quiz 2.