Google Code-in

Introduction:

This is easier than it sounds and also lots of fun. Your job is to create a program (in Rust) that downloads a comic from the famous https://xkcd.com/ website and displays it ASCII art.

You don't have to convert the image to ASCII yourself; there are libraries that do for you and it's OK to use them. For example this is one such library:

https://github.com/edelsonc/asciify

(you can use any other, or write one if you want, etc)

Things:

1) Your program needs to be packaged with cargo

2) You must upload your submission to github

3) Your github project must have a README.md with usage instructions AND a terminal recording with asciinema.org (this is a fantastic tool, super easy to use that lets you record a terminal session and play it back anywhere, or even embed it on a web page) that shows you compiling and running your program.

4) If the program is run without any parameter, show a random comic. Otherwise, show the comic number corresponding to the parameter, or an error if such comic doesn't exist.

5) Output the converted comic in the terminal

Useful links:

• https://xkcd.com/
• https://asciinema.org/
• https://github.com/edelsonc/asciify