How to create a Python program that prints your nickname without using the letters of the alphabet and numbers, even non-latin letters?

[Newblesse Obblige]

This problem is driving me nuts(because I'm a beginner) but I want to know what is the answer to this problem our teacher gave us in the class.

How to create a Python program that prints your nickname without using the letters of the alphabet and numbers, even non-latin letters like Chinese, Japanese, and etc,?

 

Don't worry, This was given last week so I'm not cheating and I can't sleep whenever I remember this smh.

[zeusthemoose]

Do dashes, vertical lines, and slashes count as non-Latin letters? If they don’t and you can use them, you should be able to print your nickname in block letter style format. Maybe there is a more programmer way of doing it, but as a beginner that’s how I would do it.

[Slottr]

Not really sure what you mean?

 

Like Ascii art?

[AbydosOne]

15 minutes ago, 5GigaaHertz said:

How to create a Python program that prints your nickname without using the letters of the alphabet and numbers

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I think that's what the teacher is looking for (if I had to put my best guess)

 

(it better be... that was a lot of work...)

[Newblesse Obblige]

3 minutes ago, Slottr said:

Not really sure what you mean?

 

Like Ascii art?

Me too. I don't really know but I'm just saying what our teacher is saying.

[Newblesse Obblige]

4 minutes ago, AbydosOne said:

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I think that's what the teacher is looking for (if I had to put my best guess)

 

(it better be... that was a lot of work...)

Maybe that's it but I haven't seen what is the answer yet from our teacher though.

[Newblesse Obblige]

9 minutes ago, zeusthemoose said:

Do dashes, vertical lines, and slashes count as non-Latin letters? If they don’t and you can use them, you should be able to print your nickname in block letter style format. Maybe there is a more programmer way of doing it, but as a beginner that’s how I would do it.

It doesn't say it isn't i guess.

[straight_stewie]

7 hours ago, 5GigaaHertz said:

Maybe that's it but I haven't seen what is the answer yet from our teacher though.

We can think of the asterisks in that image as pixels. Then, each character becomes a glyph.

 

What you can do is put each character into a glyph table (also known as a font table). Then, you can translate each character you support into an index into that table.

There is a problem left for you to solve, and that is what to do when you encounter input with a character that you don't have a glyph for.

[Thaelin]

That so reeks of the old ascii art we did on the BBS's of the day. I was co-host of one. Was so much fun to do. Had peeps even animating some of it. Dial up and CGA.