Question

Nesting loops in this lab, you add nested loops to a C program provided. The program should print the outline of the letter e. The letter e is printed using asterisks, three across and five down. This program uses cout.

a) True
b) False

Answer 1

The assertion that a C program designed to print the outline of the letter 'e' uses 'cout' is false, as 'cout' is used in C++ not C. Instead, C programs typically use 'printf' for output. The task involves nested loops to create the outlined pattern of 'e'.

Step-by-step explanation:

The question is asking if a C program provided for a lab, which prints the outline of the letter e using asterisks, uses cout. The statement that this program uses cout is false. cout is a part of C++ and is used for output in that language. For a C program, the typical output command would be printf or possibly putchar for character output. A nested loop structure is used in programming to iterate over multiple dimensions or levels — for instance, rows and columns when printing characters to form shapes like letters.

To print the specified pattern for the letter e, most likely two loops will be used: one to iterate over the rows (height) and one nested within to iterate over the columns (width). For the letter e which should be 'three across and five down', the outer loop would typically run 5 times (for each row), and the inner loop would run 3 times (for each column).