A chatbot is a software application used to conduct an on-line chat conversation via text or text-to-speech, in lieu of providing direct contact with a live human agent. This article will demonstrate a short fun coding piece to simulate a chatbot. Its objectives are: Accept input from the console as a string and give an answerIf the bot cannot find the answer, they ask for training and add the...
Fun coding challenge: print the American flag
Printing is an important part when programming. Printing the US flag to the system console was a small part of “the shape game” for kids, in which the players will select the correct name for a given shape. The flag of the united states Basic Requirements: You are required to print the American flag to the console using just “*” and “=”. The number of stars...
Check if a string is a palindrome
A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of characters which reads the same backward as forward, such as madam, racecar. There are also numeric palindromes, including date/time stamps using short digits 11/11/11 11:11 and long digits 02/02/2020. Sentence-length palindromes ignore capitalization, punctuation, and word boundaries, so “A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!” is...