Thread: rows and columns in the form of...

Originally Posted by KevinWorkman

And what have you tried? I assume you're trying to add spaces to format those numbers correctly (the forum eliminates extra white space). Have you tried doing something similar in your code?

Hm.. I feel like I'm close but not quite there, I took a look at my notes and because I've written them poorly, they look like this

for(column=n-row; column++), I think I'm getting closer to the idea.

Need to write my notes better next time, here's my code listed below:

package assignments;
 
public class MultTable 
{
    public static void main (String [] args)
    {
 
        int row, column, space, x, y;
        System.out.println ("         0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9"
                + "   10   11   12   13   14   15");
        System.out.println ("________________________________________"
                + "_______________________________________");
 
        for(row = 0; row <= 15; row++)
        {
 
            System.out.println();
 
            for(column = 0; column <= 15; column++)
            {
                System.out.printf ("%5d", column*row);
 
            }//tier 2 for loop: columns
        }//tier 1 for loop: rows
 
        System.out.println ();
    }//end main
}//end class

Put away your notes and play with the code you've posted. You can't possibly write notes on everything that you'll need to finish every project. Sometimes you have to examine the problem, think of possible solutions, and connect things you've learned in different ways to discover the right solution.

Decide what needs to be fixed, consider the possible options to make the fix, and try them out. As you go through this phase of fix (maybe), test, fix, be sure to have code that you can always fall back on that's not too far off. Save the original version in a separate editor, make small changes one at a time, and save each version that gets closer to the desired result as you go. If you get completely lost and have scrambled code that doesn't compile or work at all, fallback to the last saved version.

Can anyone help me out? I've tried every possibly thing that I know of, I think I should at least have 3 for loops, played around with it, but still getting nowhere.

We're always interested in seeing "every possible thing you know of."

First describe what you're trying to do - what's wrong with the output of the code you've posted. Then describe what you thought of to fix it and post the code you tried to implement what you thought of. What was wrong with those attempts? If you got errors from those attempts, post those. Start with the thought and code that got you closest to fixing the code.