Comp 151 Project 4

A "let's work with lists and files" project.

Due: Monday Oct 15th at 11:59pm

Description

This project is intended to help you  become more comfortable working with files 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.

Before you begin your program:

• 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),

In your program you will

• 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:

Since you need to submit your text file as well as your program this time, be sure to zip up the entire project folder, remember to include your name in the name of the project so I don't end up with a dozen peoples work in one "Project 4" folder when I unzip everything.

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