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ZAMYLA CHAN: In the
initials problem, we're

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going to prompt the user for their
name and then print their initials.

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To prompt for the name, we'll use the
get string function found in the CS 50

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library, and you're allowed to
assume that this string will only

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contain letters and spaces-- so no
numbers and no other characters.

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Then, once you have the
string, you'll iterate through.

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>> If, say, I was using
this program, then I

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might type my name perfectly--
Zamyla Chan with a capital Z

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in the beginning, a space, and then
a capital C to start my last name.

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So you'd simply iterate
through the string,

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getting the first character, and then
the first character after a space

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and printing those out.

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>> But say you had a slightly
sloppier user, Milo Banana, who

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doesn't type in uppercase and
might include some extraneous space

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characters.

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Well, then when you
iterate through the string,

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you'll have to check to make sure
that you're not printing out a space,

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but rather, his proper
initials, capital M,

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capital B. To print out capital letters,
you can use the toupper function.

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And with that, you finished the problem.

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>> My name is Z. C., and this was initials.

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