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"Batesy" <batesy@metallica.com> wrote in message
news:38cf74f3$0$1930@motown.iinet.net.au...
> problem with a bit of code. My tutor wants us to do the following:
>
> You may use output statements that
> print a single asterisk (*), a single space or a single newline character.
> Maximise your use of repetition (with nested loops) and minimise the
> number
> of output statements.
>
> The program should ask the user to enter an odd number in the range 1 to
> 21
> to specify the number of rows in the diamond.
>         *
>        ***
>       *****
>      *******
>     *********
>      *******
>       *****
>        ***
>         *
> Now this really has me stumped. Can someone please explain it to
> me please?
> If you would like to email any suggestions emailme at:
> batesy@batesy.iinet.net.au

Yeah, I'm glad this guy is not giving me specs to code to.

Write a java program to print a diamond. It should promt the user for an odd
number as input, and print a diamond with the specified number of rows. The
diamond will be made up of spaces, asterisks and end-lines.

Your tutor wants to see you use loops and whatnot to do the job. Recursive
functions are right out (sorry).

so you will wind up with something like

class foo {
    main() {
        get odd number from user;

        print a diamond to System.out;
    }
}

C:> java foo
Please enter an odd number: 4
4 is not an odd number.
Please enter an odd number: 5
  *
 ***
*****
 ***
  *

Go to it, code boy!

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