Java stars program

hi all i have to make a stars program in Java but i don't quite get the code yet .
i have some code and makes a star program but its the wrong way around.

Code:

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public class Stars
{
        public static void main(String[] args)
        {
       
        for (int row = 1; row <= 5; row++)
        {
        for (int space = 4; space <= row -5; space++)
        {
        System.out.print(" ");
        }
       
        for (int star = 1; star <= 6 - row; star++)
        {
                System.out.print("*");
        }
        System.out.println();
        }
}
}

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My Results

G:\FPT>javac Stars.java

G:\FPT>java Stars
*****
****
***
**
*

pleas could somebody explain how i can change this around as i don't understand it explain what each line of code means so i could do this again

many thanks Andy..

Quote:

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Originally Posted by andnlou2678

hi all i have to make a stars program in Java but i don't quite get the code yet .
i have some code and makes a star program but its the wrong way around.

Code:

---

public class Stars
{
        public static void main(String[] args)
        {
       
        for (int row = 1; row <= 5; row++)
        {
        for (int space = 4; space <= row -5; space++)//this for loop is actually not doing anything,so better drop it off....
        {
        System.out.print(" ");
        }
       
        for (int star = 1; star <= 6 - row; star++)
        {
                System.out.print("*");
        }
        System.out.println();
        }
}
}

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My Results

G:\FPT>javac Stars.java

G:\FPT>java Stars
*****
****
***
**
*

pleas could somebody explain how i can change this around as i don't understand it explain what each line of code means so i could do this again

many thanks Andy..

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now moving forward....

the remaining code is-

for (int row = 1; row <= 5; row++)
{
for (int star = 1; star <= 6 - row; star++)
{
System.out.print("*");
}
System.out.println();
}

1.initially row=1,then the loop checks whether row<=5,and we can easily see that 1<5,therefore the outerloop exectutes.....inside the outerloop we found that
star is initialised to 1 and we checks that star<=6-row....we can easily see that 1<=6-1,therefore the inner for loop executes....and a "*" gets printed,when this "*" gets printed the value of star gets incremented to 2 and we can still see that star<=6-row[2<=5],therefore inner loop executes again and another "*" gets printed.....so now we have two "*" printed on the screen,now the value of star is incremented again and another "*" gets printed.....now the inner loop executes 5 times,because when star gets incremented 6th time,value of star becomes equal to 6 and the testing condition becomes false because 6<=5 returns false....

so 5 stars gets printed....then we see a println statement and a the cursor moves to a new line....

2.now the value of row gets incremented by 1,and the outer loop executes 2nd time,now the value of row=2.....in the outer loop,the value of star is initialiased again with star=1 and the testing condition now is star<=6-row[star<=6-2,because row=2 this time]....so the inner loop executes only 4 times this time and 4 star gets printed...the inner loop terminates after printing 4 stars and another println method is encountered and the cursor moves to the next line...

3.the value of row gets incremented again...and the testing condition of outer loop is tested again,this time row=3 which is obviously smaller than 5,so outer loop executes again and the testing condition of inner loop is now star<=6-3(because row=3 this time),so inner loop executes 3 times this time and 3 stars are printed...

4.this thing goes on and the outer loop executes two more time and 2 and 1 star gets printed respectively in next two lines....

maybe this can help you...

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this is what i am trying to achieve but i still don't understand how to get there i have been reading lots about it and also at uni but i just cant get it in my head is there a simple way to understand this.

many thanks Andy..

thanks for your help but i worked it out

Code:

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public class Stars
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{

for (int row = 1; row <= 5; row++)
{
for (int space = 1; space <= 5-row ; space++)
{
System.out.print(" ");
}

for (int star = 1; star <= row; star++)
{
System.out.print("*");
}
System.out.println();
}
}
}

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thanks Andy.