Comp 151-H Project 4

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

Due: April 11th 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 at least 20 "quirky sayings"/fortunes (the only requirement is that they be appropriate for display in class), If I use my own file though, you should handle as many fortunes as I put in. Make each fortune its own line,
• Create a list by reading those 20+ fortunes from your file
• repeat as often as the user wants:
• select a random answer from your list of fortunes and display it
• ask the user if (s)he wants to see another fortune (make the reply check case insensitive.) If the user wants another repeat this process. 

Don't forget to comment your program.

Additional requirement:

use functions. Make sure that none of your functions has more than 8 lines of code in it. The usual rule of thumb is that each of your functions should do one thing.

Submission:

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