Work 08: Scaling up the Problem

Posted: Thu Oct 1

Due: Friday 10/2 10:00am

Submission name: w08_thermometer

The big picture

We’ll start off with yesterdays work, but add more options to our program, allowing for different temperature scales (celsius or farenheit).

Also, make sure you are testing your program by including a setup function that draws a thermometer for each type.

Program Modifications:

• Add two global variables at the top of your program:
  • int CELSIUS = 0;
  • int FARENHEIT = 1;
  • Instead of being values that will change when the program is running, these will act like constants, so we can use CELSIUS or FARENHEIT when we want to reference different temperature scales (if you want you could add one for KELVIN).
• In order to use these constants, we have to modify the following:
  • drawThermometer should now have a parameter for the scale type, and pass that into function calls when needed.
  • drawReading should now have a parameter for the scale type.
    • If the scale type is CELSIUS, the temperature bar should be based on the range [0, 100].
    • If the scale type is FARENHEIT, the temperature bar should be based on the range [32, 212].
    • Importantly, this means that the same temperature number will have different height depending on the scale used.
  • drawScale should have two new parameters, representing the minimum and maximum temperatures for the scale.

Reference Image:

The reference image includes numbers, you do not need to add them.