University of Calgary

find the area of a shape

Find Area Of Shape
Source: Tino Duong, 2003

Description:

Write a program to calculate the are of four basic geometric shapes:


The menu should keep looping until the user chooses to quit.

Requirements:

Your output should look similar to this:

    This program will calculate the area of a specified shape
    ---------------------------------------------------------

    1) Triangle
    2) Rectangle
    3) Square
    4) Circle
    5) Quit

    Please select a shape: 1
        
    Base: 12
    Height:90

    The Area is 540

    Please select a shape: 5
    Good bye.

Concepts:

Additional Concepts:

 Challenge:

Given the points (as [x,y] coordinates) of a polygon that may have anywhere from 3 to 10 sides, write a program to calculate the area.



Updated: August 28, 2005 03:07 PM