A simple parameter

[stephen.kenney@maine.edu]

Hello,

I am just looking for a little bit of help with one of my homework assignments. I am hung-up on how to create a parameter that will make a printlin statement repeat itself. I have to make a the neck of the robot, shown below, two lines tall by using a parameter and setting it to two. I am not exactly sure how to accomplish this with just a parameter. I have only been able to make the neck one line tall.

Neck: | |

What I have now:

public class DoubleSum {


// Program for the above Robot 1. Changing the parameters
// will result in similar but different robots. Longer or shorter
// neck, body and legs. Wider body.
public static void main(String[] args) {
head();
neck(2);}
public static void head(){
System.out.println(".-------.");
System.out.println("| o o |");
System.out.println("| < |");
System.out.println("| --- |");
System.out.println("'-------'");

}
public static void neck(Object height){
System.out.println(" | | ");
}
}


To see the problem you can go to the link below.
Program 3, COS 160

Hope someone out there can help me! Thanks in advance!

~Steve

[JosAH]

I am just looking for a little bit of help with one of my homework assignments. I am hung-up on how to create a parameter that will make a printlin statement repeat itself. I have to make a the neck of the robot, shown below, two lines tall by using a parameter and setting it to two. I am not exactly sure how to accomplish this with just a parameter.

Use a loop? Like this:

for (int i= 0; i < paramValue; i++)
   // draw a neck fragment here ...

kind regards,

Jos

[lenois]

public class DoubleSum {


	// Program for the above Robot 1. Changing the parameters
	// will result in similar but different robots. Longer or shorter
	// neck, body and legs. Wider body.
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		head();
		neck(2);}
	public static void head(){
		System.out.println(".-------.");
		System.out.println("| o o |");
		System.out.println("| < |");
		System.out.println("| --- |");
		System.out.println("'-------'");

	}
	public static void neck(Object height){
		System.out.println(" | | ");
	}
}

use a loop with the int around it.

also use the code brackets, and indent please

here is a good tutorial for loops

also when you have a method, you need to declare the pass type at the method

public static void main (String[]args)
{	
	int value= 42;
	
	fattyBoomBoom(value);
}
public static void fattyBoomBoom(int value)
{
	System.out.println(value);
}

[stephen.kenney@maine.edu]

Big thanks to both of you that replied to my post. It helped out a lot!