Preliminary

  • Due Date: Wednesday, Sept 14 by 12:45 PM
  • This assignment must be completed individually.

Simple Business Card (100 Points)

Background

Imagine you have landed a great summer job, working as a data processor at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. You have your own office and everyone in the building loves talking about birds as much as you do. There are bird feeders by your window, and the snacks are free. Today your boss wants you to meet with a potential donor today, and you’d love to give a copy of your contact information, but where did your business cards go?

Fortunately, you recently started an oddly named course called The Joy and Beauty of Computing that has given you the skills to make one yourself. You decide to design a business card that includes your department logo, your name, address, phone number and lab email, just in case this client wants to reach you. You don’t remember exactly what it’s supposed to look like, but luckily you borrow a spare from a coworker and try to make a design that looks exactly like his:

+------------------------------------------------+
|     ,,                                         |
|    >`)                                         |
|    ( |           Andy Guttenbird               |
|     ^            eBird Data Processor          |
| -------          Cornell Lab of Ornithology    |
|    _                                           |
|   ("<                                          |
|   / )            159 Sapsucker Woods Rd.       |
|    L             Ithaca, New York 373737       |
| ---------        birds.cornell.edu             |
|                                                |
|                                                |
|  P: (607) 254-2473   @: andy@cornell.edu       |
|                                                |
+------------------------------------------------+

Assignment

Write a Python program that produces a business card for you with the following characteristics:

  • 10 points - Your first and last name is on the card.
  • 10 points - Your phone number is on the card.
  • 10 points - Your e-mail address is on the card. Assume this address uses the format your-first-name@cornell.edu.
  • 30 points - Everything else about your business card matches the card above. For each difference, 10 points will be deducted.
  • 20 points - Your code is human-readable, including extra spaces around the operators (i.e., =, +, etc.) and extra blank lines to separate different code sections.
  • 20 points - The Python program you submit runs properly.

Submission

Place the solution in a file named card_[firstname].py (ex. card_henry.py) and upload it to the Portal no later than 12:45 PM on Wednesday, September 14.

Note: Since late submissions lose credit, you should submit whatever you have (even if it is not completely finished) by the deadline above. Partial credit for ontime submissions can be earned.

Last modified: September 7, 2022