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Excellent start!

First get the user's input (use a Scanner object), then you'll use an 'if' statement to do pretty much what you've described, something like:
if ( j = userInput )
{
// do...

A pattern of rows and columns printed with 2 loops (one nested in the other) with special characters output on the designated row and column.

I suggest you start by writing nested loops that print...