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Ascii Marquee

In this project, students will take an alphabetic ASCII input and create a text marquee using loops.

Easy

2 Hours

High School

Project Description

Background

ASCII art is an art form that uses computer keyboard characters to create images. ASCII (pronounced “as·kee”) is a standard that computers use to generate the text that we see (like the letters you are currently reading). People have been using ASCII to make art since around the mid to late 1900s! We even hid an ASCII art version of “CodeHS” in the source code of our website for people to find:



Your Task

For this project, you need to create a program that will accept input and print out output in an ASCII Marquee. Your program will need to read in the lines using a scanner object and then outputs the text.

Project Demo

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Project Overview

Here is an outline of the project activities: