So I am very keen on building something neat here, and using a raw file to create a little program is cool using only the code in the program with no outside libraries, however, nowhere does it say you cant use external programs to create a program... Is this correct?

For example, using a program to create ASCII art like smily and whatnot. So in the program, it would be a "hardcoded" print function, while it was actually created in an external program and pasted into the code...