I'm going through a beginners exercise for writing a small program in Java. My task is to print out (i.e. find an algorithm) the following output:
XOOOOOOOOO XXOOOOOOOO XXXOOOOOOO XXXXOOOOOO XXXXXOOOOO XXXXXXOOOO XXXXXXXOOO XXXXXXXXOO XXXXXXXXXO XXXXXXXXXX
I have figured out how to do it but the code I wrote seems repetitive and tedious. How can I shorten my code?
package helloWorld;
public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args)
{
// Output
// Algorithm 1
boolean ft = true;
String s = new String();
for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
s += "X";
for(int j = 0; j < 9; j++)
{
if(i == 0)
{
s += "O";
}
if(i == 1)
{
if(ft == true)
{
s+="X";
ft = false;
}
if(j == 8)
{
continue;
}
s += "O";
}
if(i == 2)
{
if(ft == true)
{
s+= "XX";
ft = false;
}
if(j == 7)
{
break;
}
s += "O";
}
if(i == 3)
{
if(ft == true)
{
s+= "XXX";
ft = false;
}
if(j == 6)
{
break;
}
s += "O";
}
if( i == 4)
{
if(ft == true)
{
s+= "XXXX";
ft = false;
}
if(j == 5)
{
break;
}
s += "O";
}
if( i == 5)
{
if(ft == true)
{
s+= "XXXXX";
ft = false;
}
if(j == 4)
{
break;
}
s += "O";
}
if( i == 6)
{
if(ft == true)
{
s+= "XXXXXX";
ft = false;
}
if(j == 3)
{
break;
}
s += "O";
}
if( i == 7)
{
if(ft == true)
{
s+= "XXXXXXX";
ft = false;
}
if(j == 2)
{
break;
}
s += "O";
}
if( i == 8)
{
if(ft == true)
{
s+= "XXXXXXXX";
ft = false;
}
if(j == 1)
{
break;
}
s += "O";
}
if( i == 9)
{
if(ft == true)
{
s+= "XXXXXXXXX";
ft = false;
}
if(j == 0)
{
break;
}
s += "O";
}
}
System.out.println(s);
s = "";
ft = true;
}
}
}
