Java question (noob)

EPPHO · November 4, 2018

So I have a homework to write a code to do this (first picture)

I did this (2nd picture) and I don't know how to print upwards (if that's a thing, if it's not then I'm doing this the wrong way)

EPPHO · November 4, 2018

Or maybe there's a command or something to "reset the position" and start from the 1st row?

minibois · November 4, 2018

Dont you just have to tell your program to do something like this (just doing some pseudo coding):

Print - x5
Print space x5
Print - x5 (repeat however many times you want this)
Print 4 spaces
Print +
//Do this a couple times..
//And now repeat the above code for the bottom part. So first print spaces and afterwards dashes..

So just print the lines, the plus sign, some spaces, rinse and repeat..

Afterwards print a couple spaces, vertical dash, spaces.. vertical dash.. etc.

and bottom is the same as above, but reverse (spaces, plus, dashes, plus, spaces, etc.)

You could probably use some for loops for this to not just repeat "print "-" 5 times.

EPPHO · November 4, 2018

35 minutes ago, Minibois said:
Dont you just have to tell your program to do something like this (just doing some pseudo coding):
Print - x5
Print space x5
Print - x5 (repeat however many times you want this)
Print 4 spaces
Print +
//Do this a couple times..
//And now repeat the above code for the bottom part. So first print spaces and afterwards dashes..
So just print the lines, the plus sign, some spaces, rinse and repeat..

Afterwards print a couple spaces, vertical dash, spaces.. vertical dash.. etc.

and bottom is the same as above, but reverse (spaces, plus, dashes, plus, spaces, etc.)

You could probably use some for loops for this to not just repeat "print "-" 5 times.

Yes I have to use for loops because there are inputs so it'll look different.

The thing is that I didn't know that I have to finish the first row then go to second etc. I thought I have to follow the "shape" of the line on the output.