Hi,
I just started learning C++ and I might be needing a lot of help so I decided to join this forum. The first problem am having is to try to print "HELLO" in big block letters where each letter is 7 characters high and 5 characters wide.

I will greatly appreciate any help and I also need a mentor to help me in C++, whom I can send emails to when I have problems in programming.

The code I have to print "Hello" is

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

int main() {
cout << "Hello";

cin.get();
return 0;
}

P.S
Please ignore previous thread.

As a general program to print out any message, this does not seem to be a particularly appropriate first assignment, since I think it involves nested loops and 2-D arrays and things like that. It's a far cry (well, maybe not that far, but far enough) from cout << "Hello".

Unless, of course you just want to print a message "hard-coded" into the program. See footnote.

So, what is the actual assignment?

Regards,

Dave

Footnote: If it's OK to hard-code the message into the program, then open a text editor and manually build up the message. For example, I might want the message to look like the following:

Each character is 5x7, and there are two blank columns between characters. Now if this is what you want, then just put a

cout << /* something goes here */ << endl;

statement for each of the seven lines of the message.

Can't. Saw it first. You should have posted any new information the ignore message there...

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Yeah dave, I think it is just a first assignment to get used to writing code. This is pretty easy, Emmy. All you should have to do is break the block letters into lines, and print the lines one at a time like dave's post shows.

For example:

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Thanks guys, I think Dave is right. I got the assignment from a C++ book am using, I was thinking there might be some code that enlarges print statements. That answers my question. Once again thanks.
Emmy