VC3 Challenge - C Diamonds
Author: Sergey Kiselev
Category: Christmas Challenge
System: Any system that can run complied C code
Language: C
Len source code: 98
Len exe file: depends on the compiler and system, about 16 KiB on Linux/x86-64
Len code only: depends on the compiler and system
Instructions:
Build the code using your favorite C compiler. E.g., on Linux using GCC:
$ gcc -o diamonds diamonds.c
Run the code:
$ ./diamonds
Description:
This is mostly a straight-forward implementation.
The program has two nested loops that run for 19 iterations each and scan all the
columns and rows. At each iteration of the inner loop a character - either a star
or a space are printed on the screen. At each iteration of the outer loop
a carriage return and a new line characters are printed, moving the cursor to
the next line.
The star is printed when (column-row) mod 6 == 3 or (column+row) mod 6 == 3.
To reduce the size and the complexity of the program, the starting value of
column selected in such a way, that column-row is always positive, and 3 added,
so that the modulo equations above become (column-row) mod 6 == 0 and
(column+row) mod == 0.
Comments:
I am curious to see if it can be made any smaller than that using C language...