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Thread: Using Nested Loops

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    Lightbulb Using Nested Loops

    Display the following: Using loops
        1
       21
      321
     4321
    54321
    This is my attempt.

    public class UsingLoops {
        public static void main(String[] args) {
            for (int line = 1; line <= 5; line++) {
                for (int j = 1; j <= (-1 * line + 5); j++) {
                    System.out.print(" ");
                }
                System.out.print(line);
                for (int j = 1; j >= (-1 * line + 3); j--) {
                    System.out.print(j + 3);
                }
                System.out.println();
            }
        }
    }
    This is the output that I get:
        1
       24
      343
     4432
    54321
    What am I doing wrong? How do I fix my code?
    It appears the space aren't showing when I created this thread. There is supposed to be 4 spaces before the first line, 3 spaces before the second line and so on.
    Last edited by helloworld922; September 27th, 2011 at 07:00 PM.


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    Default Re: Using Nested Loops

    What am I doing wrong? How do I fix my code?
    Your code is not printing the biggest number down to 1 on each line. Compute the largest number for the line and decrement it by 1 until you get to 1.
    It looks like your leading spaces are ok.

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    Default Re: Using Nested Loops

    Ok thanks. I managed to fix my code and get the right output. Here it is.
    public class UsingLoops {
    	public static void main(String[] args) {
    		for (int line = 1; line <= 5; line++) {
        			for (int j = 1; j <= (-1 * line + 5); j++) {
            		System.out.print(" ");
    			}
    			for (int j = line; j >= 1; j--) {
    			System.out.print(j);
    			}
        		System.out.println();
    		}
    	}
    }

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    Default Re: Using Nested Loops

    this is my answer....
    try this....

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    Last edited by copeg; November 5th, 2011 at 10:53 AM.

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    Default Re: Using Nested Loops

    Please wrap your posted code in code tags to preserve formatting.

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    Default Re: Using Nested Loops

    Quote Originally Posted by ravindu
    this is my answer....
    Ravindu, please read the forum rules and the following link: http://www.javaprogrammingforums.com...n-feeding.html

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    Default Re: Using Nested Loops

    Quote Originally Posted by copeg View Post
    Ravindu, please read the forum rules and the following link: http://www.javaprogrammingforums.com...n-feeding.html
    So tell me, when you first start learning something at school or university, do they expect you to learn everything on your own, or do they help you solve things ?

    I understand your point about spoon feeding, but the guy is asking for help, don't u think he can sit and think if he had to ? and if he knew that he needs help, then he would ask for it ? I don't understand why the strict rules about not posting solutions...you always learn ...even if u took someone else's code and studied it, you would still learn, I'm sure that you can write more than one piece of code to do the exact same thing. so why not post a solution, and let the person asking for help, get the idea, and then try to recode it. Or perhaps if you really want, maybe u can use by pesudo code, instead of complete code, which in a way makes them learn the syntax better.

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    Default Re: Using Nested Loops

    Quote Originally Posted by Hello_World! View Post
    So tell me, when you first start learning something at school or university, do they expect you to learn everything on your own, or do they help you solve things ?

    I understand your point about spoon feeding, but the guy is asking for help, don't u think he can sit and think if he had to ? and if he knew that he needs help, then he would ask for it ? I don't understand why the strict rules about not posting solutions...you always learn ...even if u took someone else's code and studied it, you would still learn, I'm sure that you can write more than one piece of code to do the exact same thing. so why not post a solution, and let the person asking for help, get the idea, and then try to recode it. Or perhaps if you really want, maybe u can use by pesudo code, instead of complete code, which in a way makes them learn the syntax better.
    Did you read the link provided above? It contains much of the reasoning behind spoon feeding, which is supported by the moderating team here as well as every other forum you might visit. So I will leave it up to you to read and digest its points. Should you like to continue to discuss, then please make another thread, use the private messaging feature, or start a conversation rather than continuing in this thread

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