C# – Eggcellent – Painting on the console

Posted on April 6, 2014 by

Sometimes, you may see something that seems rather easy to be achieved, you have a vision in your mind regarding it and it still takes 5 times more time and patience to get it. Today, after taking a look at what seemed to be rather easy task with printing on the console an egg, I was pretty sure that I can come up with a working solution within 15 minutes.

The task was similar to the one with the boats, its logic and methodology was exactly the same, but still I needed about 1.5 hours of what seemed to be an easily digestible task. Quite funny, eh?

The question is why? First, I had problems with the fact that the vertical lines of the egg were not defined in size. I created some easy formula to define them, but it did not work with more than 3 of the types. Then, it seemed that it is not that easy to reverse the first part of the egg, and after some 30 minutes of trying to do it, I simply decided to build it up again from scratch. Thus, the code written by me became 144 lines, with about 60% of it a redundant one.

Considering the fact, that I have already spent some hours writing the code, I have decided to publish it anyhow, without further edition. Yes, it can be upgraded and improved, but for the sake of the fact that it gives 100% on the tests, it is quite OK. Brace yourself, here it comes:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

class Egg
{
    static void Main()
    {
        int N = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());
        int height = 2 * N;
        int Eggwidth = 3 * N - 1;
        int drawingAreaWidth = 3 * N + 1;
        int counterHeight = 0;

        //Top
        Console.Write(new string('.', 1));
        Console.Write(new string('.', N));
        Console.Write(new string('*', Eggwidth - N * 2));
        Console.Write(new string('.', N));
        Console.Write(new string('.', 1));
        counterHeight++;
        Console.WriteLine();

        //print slope top side:
        int loopSize = N - 2;
        int mask = N;

        if (loopSize >= 1)
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < loopSize; i++)
            {
                if (mask < 1)
                {
                    break;
                }
                Console.Write(new string('.', 1));
                Console.Write(new string('.', mask - 2));
                Console.Write(new string('*', 1));
                Console.Write(new string('.', Eggwidth - mask * 2 + 2));
                Console.Write(new string('*', 1));
                Console.Write(new string('.', mask - 2));
                Console.Write(new string('.', 1));
                mask -= 2;
                counterHeight++;
                Console.WriteLine();
            }
        }

        //print top sides:
        int maskWidth = (N * 2 - (counterHeight * 2)-2)/2;
        if (maskWidth > 0)
        {
            for (int i = 0; i < maskWidth; i++)
            {
                Console.Write(new string('.', 1));
                Console.Write(new string('*', 1));
                Console.Write(new string('.', Eggwidth - 2));
                Console.Write(new string('*', 1));
                Console.Write(new string('.', 1));
                counterHeight++;
                Console.WriteLine();
            }
        }

        //Printing the middle:
        Console.Write(new string('.', 1));
        Console.Write(new string('*', 1));

        for (int i = 0; i < Eggwidth - 2; i++)
        {
            if (i % 2 == 0)
            {
                Console.Write('@');
            }
            else
            {
                Console.Write('.');
            }
        }

        Console.Write(new string('*', 1));
        Console.Write(new string('.', 1));
        counterHeight++;
        Console.WriteLine();

        //Second line of the middle:
        Console.Write(new string('.', 1));
        Console.Write(new string('*', 1));
        for (int i = 0; i < Eggwidth - 2; i++)
        {
            if (i % 2 == 1)
            {
                Console.Write('@');
            }
            else
            {
                Console.Write('.');
            }
        }
        Console.Write(new string('*', 1));
        Console.Write(new string('.', 1));
        counterHeight++;
        Console.WriteLine();

        //print bottom:
        //print bottom sides:
        for (int i = 0; i < maskWidth; i++)
        {
            Console.Write(new string('.', 1));
            Console.Write(new string('*', 1));
            Console.Write(new string('.', Eggwidth - 2));
            Console.Write(new string('*', 1));
            Console.Write(new string('.', 1));
            counterHeight++;
            Console.WriteLine();
        }

        int loopsLeft = height - counterHeight - 1;
        int z = 0;

        for (int i = 0; i < loopsLeft; i++)
        {
            Console.Write(new string('.', 1));
            Console.Write(new string('.', z));
            Console.Write(new string('*', 1));
            Console.Write(new string('.', Eggwidth-2*z-2));
            Console.Write(new string('*', 1));
            Console.Write(new string('.', z));
            Console.Write(new string('.', 1));
            z += 2;
            Console.WriteLine();
        }

        Console.Write(new string('.', 1));
        Console.Write(new string('.', N));
        Console.Write(new string('*', Eggwidth - N * 2));
        Console.Write(new string('.', N));
        Console.Write(new string('.', 1));
        counterHeight++;
        Console.WriteLine();
    }
}

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using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Threading.Tasks;

class Egg

{

static void Main()

{

int N = int.Parse(Console.ReadLine());

int height = 2 * N;

int Eggwidth = 3 * N - 1;

int drawingAreaWidth = 3 * N + 1;

int counterHeight = 0;

//Top

Console.Write(new string('.', 1));

Console.Write(new string('.', N));

Console.Write(new string('*', Eggwidth - N * 2));

Console.Write(new string('.', N));

Console.Write(new string('.', 1));

counterHeight++;

Console.WriteLine();

//print slope top side:

int loopSize = N - 2;

int mask = N;

if (loopSize >= 1)

{

for (int i = 0; i < loopSize; i++)

{

if (mask < 1)

{

break;

}

Console.Write(new string('.', 1));

Console.Write(new string('.', mask - 2));

Console.Write(new string('*', 1));

Console.Write(new string('.', Eggwidth - mask * 2 + 2));

Console.Write(new string('*', 1));

Console.Write(new string('.', mask - 2));

Console.Write(new string('.', 1));

mask -= 2;

counterHeight++;

Console.WriteLine();

}

//print top sides:

int maskWidth = (N * 2 - (counterHeight * 2)-2)/2;

if (maskWidth > 0)

{

for (int i = 0; i < maskWidth; i++)

{

Console.Write(new string('.', 1));

Console.Write(new string('*', 1));

Console.Write(new string('.', Eggwidth - 2));

Console.Write(new string('*', 1));

Console.Write(new string('.', 1));

counterHeight++;

Console.WriteLine();

}

//Printing the middle:

Console.Write(new string('.', 1));

Console.Write(new string('*', 1));

for (int i = 0; i < Eggwidth - 2; i++)

{

if (i % 2 == 0)

{

Console.Write('@');

}

else

{

Console.Write('.');

}

Console.Write(new string('*', 1));

Console.Write(new string('.', 1));

counterHeight++;

Console.WriteLine();

//Second line of the middle:

Console.Write(new string('.', 1));

Console.Write(new string('*', 1));

for (int i = 0; i < Eggwidth - 2; i++)

{

if (i % 2 == 1)

{

Console.Write('@');

}

else

{

Console.Write('.');

}

Console.Write(new string('*', 1));

Console.Write(new string('.', 1));

counterHeight++;

Console.WriteLine();

//print bottom:

//print bottom sides:

for (int i = 0; i < maskWidth; i++)

{

Console.Write(new string('.', 1));

Console.Write(new string('*', 1));

Console.Write(new string('.', Eggwidth - 2));

Console.Write(new string('*', 1));

Console.Write(new string('.', 1));

counterHeight++;

Console.WriteLine();

}

int loopsLeft = height - counterHeight - 1;

int z = 0;

for (int i = 0; i < loopsLeft; i++)

{

Console.Write(new string('.', 1));

Console.Write(new string('.', z));

Console.Write(new string('*', 1));

Console.Write(new string('.', Eggwidth-2*z-2));

Console.Write(new string('*', 1));

Console.Write(new string('.', z));

Console.Write(new string('.', 1));

z += 2;

Console.WriteLine();

}

Console.Write(new string('.', 1));

Console.Write(new string('.', N));

Console.Write(new string('*', Eggwidth - N * 2));

Console.Write(new string('.', N));

Console.Write(new string('.', 1));

counterHeight++;

Console.WriteLine();

}

So, that’s all 🙂

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C# – Eggcellent – Painting on the console

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