Make Girl

Trouble!!

Sqrt

Computers are wonderful. The following program implements the Newton-Raphson
algorithm for finding square roots. The idea of approximating one's way to a solution
dates back to the Babylonians.

This program uses the behaviour of 2, square root of four, as a template. All true
square roots will eventually hit 0 on the condition.

The marvel is, the computer will also give intermediate results, on request. Awesome!!

Caesar_C

Pyramid-Builder

Starting the outside loop at row two does the trick for generating a pyramid
with two stars at the top. (And things are shifted to the right because I am running
the spaces first Inside the loop).

As for aligning my stars to the left-most corner, keeping the count to 1 less than the number
of stars  will do it.

For a visual representation, see:

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/22241098/

Tricky

The Mario assignment for JHarvard is trickier than the straight pyramid below. Clearly,

the top step has two tiles, so one will need to start the row count at two and end up

with n + 1 numbered rows.

But there is worse. The standard code in such matters ends up defining two independent

squares that slide over one another. The total space is not a square at all but a rectangle.

To justify left - as per the assignment - one needs to make the spaces loop loose a column.

Tricky!!

Pyramids

Dotty

This last from: ProgrammingSimplified.com

Behance

Jingna Zhang, photography for Elle Vietnam

Brrr!