6 PM – USACO Bronze – Gamas

Today We Did

1. We went over how to detect if a text is a palindrome.
2. We went over how to detect if a text is a palindrome while ignoring spaces.

Homework

1. Create word guessing game. This is very similar to hangman, but without the hangman human sticky figure. To draw heart symbol, you need to do this.

   1. String healthSymbol = "\u2665"; // unicode heart symbol.
      System.out.println(healthSymbol);

2. This is how the game goes

   1. WORD GUESSING GAME
      
      _ _ _ _ _ _ 
      ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 
      Enter a letter or the whole world: a
      
      _ _ a _ _ _ 
      ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 
      Enter a letter or the whole world: b
      
      _ _ a _ _ _ 
      ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 
      Enter a letter or the whole world: b
      
      _ _ a _ _ _ 
      ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 
      Enter a letter or the whole world: d
      
      d _ a _ _ _ 
      ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 
      Enter a letter or the whole world: r
      
      d r a _ _ _ 
      ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 
      Enter a letter or the whole world: g
      
      d r a g _ _ 
      ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 
      Enter a letter or the whole world: o
      
      d r a g o _ 
      ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 
      Enter a letter or the whole world: x
      
      d r a g o _ 
      ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 
      Enter a letter or the whole world: x
      
      d r a g o _ 
      ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 
      Enter a letter or the whole world: x
      
      d r a g o _ 
      ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 
      Enter a letter or the whole world: x
      
      d r a g o _ 
      ♥ ♥ ♥ 
      Enter a letter or the whole world: x
      
      d r a g o _ 
      ♥ ♥ 
      Enter a letter or the whole world: x
      
      d r a g o _ 
      ♥ 
      Enter a letter or the whole world: x
      Sorry you lost the game. The secret word is 'dragon'.