Preliminary

  • Due Date: Friday, Sept 22 by 9:35 PM
  • This assignment must be completed with one (and only one) other classmate. Knowing how to effectively collaborate with others is a highly valued skill in the computing industry. If you choose to complete this assignment without a partner, 20 points will be deducted.

Dynamic Business Card - 100 points

Purpose

Cornell was extremely pleased with your business card solution. They would like you to modify that solution so that it works for any first name, last name, and phone number. More specifically, your solution should ask the user to enter each of these three pieces of information separately. The program should then print the appropriate business card.

Note: It is a common task for a computer scientist to enhance the functionality of an existing program.

Sample Transcript

The sample transcript below shows what should happen when a Cornell employee runs your program. Information to the right of the prompt (>) is entered by the user.

  Please enter your first name > Petra
  Please enter your last name > Griffin
  Please enter your telephone number > (406) 582-8165

  Here is your business card ...

  +------------------------------------------------+
  |     ,,                                         |
  |    >`)                                         |
  |    ( |           Petra Griffin                 |
  |     ^            eBird Data Processor          |
  | -------          Cornell Lab of Ornithology    |
  |    _                                           |
  |   ("<                                          |
  |   / )            159 Sapsucker Woods Rd.       |
  |    L             Ithaca, New York 373737       |
  | ---------        birds.cornell.edu             | 
  |                                                |
  |                                                |
  |  P: (406) 582-8165   @: petra@cornell.edu      |
  |                                                |
  +------------------------------------------------+

Assumptions

  • Assume the person’s first name has no more than 10 characters.
  • Assume the person’s last name has no more than 10 characters.
  • Assume the person’s telephone number is entered in the format (xxx) xxx-xxxx where x is a digit between 0 and 9.

Required Python Comment

Place a Python comment at the top of your submission that is formatted as follows.

  # -----------------------------------------+
  # Your name, your partner's name           |  <-- e.g. Robert Macek, Aidan Leslie
  # Computer Science, Project 2              |
  # Last Updated: Month Day, Year            |  <-- e.g. September 22, 2023
  # -----------------------------------------|
  # A brief description of the assignment.   |  <-- can be more than 1 line (should have box around it)
  # -----------------------------------------+

Grading

  • 20 points - The user is prompted to enter their first name (4 points), last name (4 points), and telephone number (4 points) using the specified messages above (4 points) in the proper order (4 points).
  • 10 points - The Here is your business card... message appears with an empty line both before and after it.
  • 10 points - Except for the first name, last name, and telephone number, the rest of the business card is identical to the one above.
  • 20 points - The user’s first and last name appear inside the business card correctly (10 points) and the bar to the right of the entire name appears in the proper column, provided the name is not too long (10 points).
  • 10 points - The user’s e-mail address appears one space to the right of @: (5 points) and the bar to the right of the e-mail address appears in the proper column (5 points), provided the first name is not too long.
  • 10 points - The user’s phone number appears inside the business card correctly.
  • 10 points - A Python comment appears at the top of the submission in the format specified above.
  • 10 points - Each partner must upload the partnership’s solution to the Portal individually. In the comment box, explain your contributions to the solution.

Helpful Hint

Consider the following Python code:

color1 = "blue"
color2 = "gold"

print(color1.ljust(10) + color2)

When run, the code above will produce

blue      gold

The ljust(10) has the effect of printing the word “blue” at the far left (left justified) of an invisible “row of spaces” of width 10.

What happens if you replace ljust(10) with rjust(10)? With center(10)?

Submission

Place the solution in a file named card2_[firstname].py and submit it to the Portal no later than 9:35 AM on Friday, September 22.

Note: Both partners must upload the team solution individually and separately to the Portal.