Programming Assignments - Beginning 2

This page contains some classic beginning programming exercises. You should first complete most of the problems in Programming Assignments - Beginning 1 before working on problems on this page.

Problems

21. head - read from standard input or a file and print only the first 5 lines of a file
22. tail - read from standard input or a file and print only the last 5 lines of a file
23. wc - read from standard input or a file and print the total number of characters, lines, and words
24. stats - read numbers and print the smallest, largest, and average
25. sort - read numbers, sort them (using any sorting algorithm), and print in sorted order
26. csv1 - read a csv file and print how many rows and columns
27. csv stats - read a csv file and print the stats (min, max, average) of one of the columns
28. convert1 - convert between units (e.g., miles to/from km, degF to/from degC)
29. convert2 - convert between units with the units to convert to/from as part of the parameter (e.g., parse text like "convert 1 mile to km" and do the conversion)
30. arithmetic tables - print out arithmetic tables (for +, -, *, /)
31. primes - print out specified number of primes (e.g., first 10 primes, first 100 primes)
32. rectangle - print out a rectangle of *'s, optionally with blank interior
33. triangle - print out a triangle of *'s, optionally with blank interior
34. circle - print out a circle of *'s
35. higher lower game - computer picks random number, asks user to guess, tells user if they are correct / too high / too low, keeps asking until they get it right, tells them how many guesses it took them
36. tic tac toe - two player version running on the same computer, alternates asking for O and X's move, checks for a win and declares the winner or a tie