Producing ascii art via C#

Question

Hi,

I once did a programming test for a job, which involved producing ASCii art in C#. I didn't really do well at this, as I had little idea or experience of doing this in C# (or in any programming knowledge).

Are there any resources or classes in .NET that would be worth knowing/practising on?

Thanks

Answer 1

Have a read at this post http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/dheenu27/ImageToASCIIconverter03022007164455PM/ImageToASCIIconverter.aspx

It allows you to upload an image which will be converted into ASCII art :) Pretty cool stuff.

CodeProject has a sample too http://www.codeproject.com/KB/web-image/ascii_art_with_c_.aspx

Answer 2

To understand the full ASCII "spectrum" one should know about the ASCII Chart, also known as the ASCII Table.

http://www.asciitable.com/

Knowing that, one could take code found in the codeproject link and make something "unique" with it. :-)

If you think about it, it's just a "look-up" table and you can pull a value out of it and do anything you want.