🔖 Background Information
“Happy Birthday to You” is a song traditionally sung to celebrate a person’s birthday. The lyrics of the song are:
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday, dear [NAME OF PERSON]!
Happy birthday to you!🎯 Problem Statement
Write a program that asks the user for their name and then prints out the lyrics to “Happy Birthday to You” on the console. After that, the program should print out a cute, personalized bit of ASCII art that is fitting for a birthday celebration.
✅ Acceptance Criteria
Your program should…
- Prompt the user for their name and accept their entry.
- Print out the lyrics of “Happy Birthday to You” to the console.
- Fill in the name of the user in the appropriate spot in the lyrics.
- Print out a cute bit of birthday-themed ASCII art.
📋 Dev Notes
- You do not need to write any validation for the inputted name.
🖥️ Example Output
./birthday.out
What is your name? John
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday, dear John!
Happy birthday to you!
/^\
/ (/^\) /
\ ( \ \ / ( \ /^\
/ ) \ | _|_ \ | |/^\|
| / _|_ | | _|_ \ /
_|_ | | | | | | _|_
| | | | | | | | | |
| | | | ****| |******| | | |
| |****| |**** | | | |****| |
*| | | | | | | |*****
* | | H A P P Y | | *
* *
| * B I R T H D A Y ! * |
| ***** ***** |
|@ ********** ********** @|
| @ @ ************* @ @ |
| @@@ @ @ @ @ @@@ |
| @@@@ @ @ @ @ @@@@ |
* @@@@@@ @ @ @@@@@@ *
* @@@@@ *
***** *****
********** **********
*************This ASCII art image is available courtesy of the ASCII Art Collection (Johnson, 2018).
📘 Works Cited
Johnson, C. (2018). Christopher Johnson’s ASCII Art Collection. In ASCII Art. https://asciiart.website/index.php?art=events/birthday