task.md

Writing a ruby program

Goals

• write a ruby program
• escape special characters
• learn about "usage"
• Use loops
• Give your program arguments
• Use ruby documentation

Tips

• Look at Ruby documentation: https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.0/String.html
• Inspired by this tutorial: https://learnrubythehardway.org/book/ex1.html

Steps

1. Write a ruby program with exactly the following output (including separate lines and dots):

I want a dyke for president

...

I want a Black woman for president

I want someone with bad teeth...

Zoe Leonard

1992

2. Put quotes around the poem:

"I want a dyke for president ... I want a Black woman for president I want someone with bad teeth..." Zoe Leonard 1992

3. Write comments in the program to tell me what it does

4. Allow the user to add a line to the poem after the first line. How would we do this? Using arguments

5. Make it so that a user can write as many arguments as they want with each argument displaying as a line in the poem

6. Add your authorship to the piece, e.g. "& Laura Wadden". Hint: make the author the first argument

7. Tell the user how many lines they added, e.g., "Your new version of the poem added 3 lines"

8. How can we improve our program? Could we name our variables smarter so people know what we are talking about? Could we extract variables where we write in explicit things?