Comp 151 Project 3

A "let's work with lists" project.

Due: Wednesday Oct 5th at 11:59pm

Description

This project is intended to help those of you who are still a little nervous about programming to become more comfortable with it while practicing with lists.

You will build a "Fortune cookie" program. For those of you not familiar with it, once upon a time there was a command line program for power users which would give a random saying printed on the command line. Often bored graduate students would sit at a terminal and keep reading these way too many times.

You will write a small simplified version of the fortune program. Your program needs to be

In your program you will

• Create a text file in your project folder with 20 "quirky sayings"/fortunes (the only requirement is that they be appropriate for display in class),
• Create a list by reading those 20 fortunes from your file
• Ask the user how many fortunes he/she wants to see.
• store the value in a variable
• Inside of a loop (loop as many times as the user asked)
• select a random answer from your list of fortunes
• wait for the user to press the enter key (the easy way is to use the input method)

Note that it is quite possible that you will see some fortunes more than once while not seeing some at all.

Don't forget to comment your program.

Submission:

Submit the lab via blackboard as usual. Don't forget to make sure your file has you name in the file name.