LARCoded

A repo dedicated to Luke and Reef's fortnightly programming challenges

Challenge 1: The Platypus Machine

Description

You and your friend Luke are tasked with creating a program that displays pictures of platypuses to users. Your program should allow users to view pictures of platypuses, as well as add and delete pictures from the collection.

Points

Main Challenge:
10 points

Extension:
5 points

Bonus 1:
2 points

Bonus 2:
2 points

Mini Bonus:
1 point

Main Challenge

Your program should meet the following requirements:

• Display a menu to the user with the following options:
  • View pictures of platypuses
  • Add a new picture of a platypus
  • Delete a picture of a platypus
  • Quit the program
• The program should be able to store pictures of platypuses and display them to the user.
• The program should allow users to add new pictures of platypuses to the collection.
• The program should allow users to delete pictures of platypuses from the collection.

Extension

For an extra challenge, you can add the following features to your program:

• Allow users to view pictures of platypuses in a slideshow.
• Add a rating system to each picture of a platypus, and allow users to sort the pictures by rating.

Bonus 1

For a small bonus, add the ability for users to edit the metadata for each picture of a platypus (e.g. title, description, date taken).

Bonus 2

For another small bonus, allow users to import/export pictures of platypuses from/to a file (e.g. CSV, JSON).

Mini Bonus

For a very small bonus, add a feature that displays a random picture of a platypus each time the program is run.