Toward the beginning of World 1-1 in Nintendo’s Super Mario Brothers, Mario must hop over two "half-pyramids" of blocks as he heads toward a flag pole. Below is a screenshot.
Your mission is to recreate these blocks using Ruby.
NOTE: there are no rspec tests for this lab.
Open pyramid.rb and write a method (name it whatever you want) that will print the following pyramid:
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(The height and the width of the half-pyramids pictured above are 5 with a gap of size 2 separating them.)
You will obviously want to call your method later in your code, and run the file using ruby pyramid.rb to make sure it worked.
When you're ready for Part II, comment out your method call (but leave your definition the same).
Add a new feature to your program that asks a user how tall they would like to make the pyramid. Assume the argument passed during invocation is a non-negative integer no greater than 23 (this is the tallest that a pyramid can be in Mario land). This should be a new method definition.
Make a third method that will prompt the user for both the height of the pyramid AND the number of pyramids they want. Using this number, stack the pyramids on top of each other in a chain. This would be an example of a pyramid with height of 4 and chain length of 3:
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If you've made it this far, consider yourself a Mario Pro. But as an extra challenge, make a fourth method that will do the same as your third method but make every other pyramid inverted. Example:
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*Inspiration for this lab comes from one of the labs in Harvard's CS50 class (Intro to Computer Science)