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Making the Grade

Posted by Matt Gerrans on January 26, 2002 at 2:34 AM

> Matt, so what would my solution get as a grade. I've included a polished version below:
>

> public static void displayDiamond(char c, int numRow)
> {
>    for (int i=1; i>    {
>      for (int j=1; j<(i+1); j++)
>      {
>         System.out.print(c);
>      }
>      System.out.print('\n');
>    }
>    for (int i=1; i<(numRow+1); i++)
>    {
>      System.out.print(c);
>    }
>    System.out.print('\n');
>    for (int i=(numRow - 2); i>0; i=i-2)
>    {
>      for (int j=1; j<(i+1); j++)
>      {
>        System.out.print(c);
>      }
>      System.out.print('\n');
>     }
> }
> 

On another front, while looking at your code, I noticed a problem in the display of the less-than symbol: it gets treated as HTML and the for-loops get all messed up. The problem can be solved by using &lt; to get the "<" symbol to show (even inside the pre blocks). However, now when you look in the message text area below, all is fine. So there is a dichotomy: using the HTML symbols in the code posting will give a nice display, but the code cannot be cut-and-pasted (from the text area) into your favorite editor and easily compiled (you'll have to change the HTML symbols first). Oh well.

• I guess incomplete is better than an F... Hiran January 26, 2002 at 12:11 PM (1)
  • diamonds, stars, and triagles ;) Chin Loong January 27, 2002 at 9:43 AM (0)