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My house is destroyed! Can you make me one? [released]

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Background

I went on an adventure
Grabbed resources and making deeds
Like start to work on the materials
To build the shelter I need

It was a marvelous one
At least in the eyes of mine
And when the sun sets
I go inside

I went to sleep in comfort
Hoping to show it to comrades
Dreaming of dreams
In the hours that pass

Next day I wake up
I find myself in a pickle
"My house is gone, oh dear!"
Now I feel ill

I can't find a place to live
Then there I find thou
I have a simple request
"Can you make me a house?"

As some time pass by
You built such structure with potential
When you said it's made of code
You're who I'd call special

- Poem by Mark Giraffe

Moral of story: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I watched too much DDLC that I wrote a poem just for a challenge.

Challenge

Take input of a number that's $n > 2$ and use it to make a home for supposed character of the poem using the character of your choice. The building in use has a flat roof and walls. Shortest program wins!

Test Cases (# for demo)

Input: 3
Output:
###
# #
# #
Input: 5
Output:
#####
#   #
#   #
#   #
#   #
Input: 10
Output:
##########
#        #
#        #
#        #
#        #
#        #
#        #
#        #
#        #
#        #

Example program in Python 3.x

n = int(input())
for i in range(n):
	print("#", end = '')
print("")
for i in range(n - 1):
	print("#", end = '')
	for j in range(n - 2):
		print(" ", end = '')
	print("#")

Try it online!

Suggestions

  • Any more tags before adding to the main category?
  • Should I include the poem into the challenge?
  • Anything still unclear, except the poem, obviously?
  • What should I change?
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3 comment threads

Even numbers (2 comments)
Suggestion to make it rhyme (2 comments)
Generation should be well defined (2 comments)
Even numbers
dzaima‭ wrote over 2 years ago

There probably should be an even n test-case to make sure it's clear that those happen. (important as even/odd lengths mess with palindromization)

General Sebast1an‭ wrote over 2 years ago · edited over 2 years ago

dzaima‭ Ah, thanks for reminding me. I changed 7 into 10.