UMBC CMSC201, Computer Science I, Fall 1994 Section 0101, 0102 and Honors

Project 3 Comments

Remarks:

• The original handout had the following command in the sample run:

    retriever% cc201 test3.c proj3.c
    

  Since you do not have a copy of the source code for test3.c, you should compile your program using test3.o instead:

    retriever% cc201 test3.o proj3.c
    

• Yes, if you run your project with the main calendar program and ask for digits with more than 5 columns (more than 15 columns for the honors section), the main program will report an error. This is because the month and year of the calendar is printed double wide. So, if you ask for 6 columns, the main program will try to print the month in 12 columns and get an error from your DigitFont function.

• If you are using the pow function (and I asked you not to), and your program is behaving strangely, make sure that you have the preprocessor directive:

      #include <math.h>
    

  Otherwise, your program can behave very strangely. You should really write your own power function for integers (pow takes double parameters and returns a double), it's just one for loop. Relying on C to do the type conversion for you can cost you a lot more time than writing a simple for loop.