Dammed Diamond

[Ste]

/*

Steven Borchard

Diamond

*/

 

public class TrivialApplication {

 

public static void main(String args[]) {

 

 

 

Edited April 13, 2005 by Ste

[markiemrboo]

Try putting it in a code block, should come out right then.

[LobbDogg]

I remember doing that project for one of my classes in college. yet I have no idea how I did it anymore.

[markiemrboo]

I remember doing that project for one of my classes in college.  yet I have no idea how I did it anymore.

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I had to do something about this in my first year uni programming unit EXAM

[Ste]

So uh Like I said any suggestions?

[markiemrboo]

public class Diamond {
      public static void main(String[] args) {
             int size = 8;
             int evenstart = 3;

             // top half
             for (int i = size; i > 0; i -= 2) {
                 // spaces left side
                 for (int j = 0; j < Math.floor(i / 2); j++) {
                     System.out.print("-");
                 }

                 // middle stars
                 for (int j = i; j <= size; j++) {
                     System.out.print("*");
                 }

                 System.out.println();
             }

             // bottom half
             // fix up even numbers
             if (size % 2 == 0) evenstart = 0;
             for (int i = evenstart; i <= size; i += 2) {
                 // spaces left side
                 for (int j = 0; j < Math.floor(i / 2); j++) {
                     System.out.print("-");
                 }

                 // middle stars
                 for (int j = i; j <= size; j++) {
                     System.out.print("*");
                 }

                 System.out.println();
             }
      }
}

 

Bit hacky but works.

 

EDIT: eek, you could also do it the way you were doing it like so...

 

public class Diamond {
      public static void main(String[] args) {
          int size = 9;

          String A="*";
          for(int x=0;x<size;x++){
              for (int i = x; i < size; i++) {
                  System.out.print(" ");
              }

              System.out.println(A);
              A += "**";
          }

          A="*";
          for(int x = 0; x < (size + 1); x++) {
              A += "**";
          }

          for(int x=0;x<(size + 1);x++){
              for (int i = x; i > 0; i--) {
                  System.out.print(" ");
              }

              A = A.substring(2, A.length());
              System.out.println(A);
          }
      }
}

[Ste]

Ok its works but the diamond is to big. its is 10 rows to big, but thats ok Ill figure it out latter, though explain to me the use of the last part of the code, I have never encountered anything relating to substring.

 

The next part of my program, is to modify that code so a user can enter an odd number 1 - 19 to specify the numbers of rows.

Edited April 14, 2005 by Ste

[LobbDogg]

Ok when I did mine, I had to use recursion to make it, it was one of the requirements, I don't know if you need to make it a certain way or not but recursion should work.

[markiemrboo]

Ok its works but the diamond is to big. its is 10 rows to big, but thats ok Ill figure it out latter, though explain to me the use of  the last part of the code, I have never encountered anything relating to substring.

 

The next part of my program, is to modify that code so a user can enter an odd number 1 - 19 to specify the numbers of rows.

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If you need user input number of rows, notice the 'size' variable? Use that. Since what I have basically done is drawn a top triangle, the middle line and then an upside down button triangle, if size = 2 then you get (2 * 2) + 1 rows. This would mean if the user said they wanted, say, 5 rows you would have to set size = (5 /2) .. which actually equals 1.5, but it'll round down to 1 as it is an int, and as you can see (2*2) + 1 = 5 rows

 

substring, gets a portion of the string. You can specift where you want to start and where you want to end. It's basically chopping off the first two stars each time, although you could have very easily chopped off the last two stars by starting from the beginning of the string substring(0, xxx) and returning the portion of the string up until the length() - 2, so substring(0, str.length() - 2);

 

Did any of that make any sense to you, at all?

[Ste]

Yes But we haven't learned substrings yet in fact, that command is learned in programming 2. So I can't use it.

[markiemrboo]

I love it when teachers decide you haven't been taught it so you are not allowed to do it that way. Such bullcrap. Thankfully my Uni doesn't care for silly little thing like that, in fact I think they probably like the fact that you have gone away, read some docs, and figured out how to use a new function/whatever!

 

Well anyway, if you aint learnt it yet you will have to go with my first solution... or wait for someone else to come up with a better way than that (no doubt there is one, but hell if I can figure out any other way)

[Ste]

OK thanks, first big thing I had trouble.

 

Whats math.floor

Edited April 15, 2005 by Ste