ASCII Art Examples

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Problem In this sample problem, we'll examine how to create a number of different "pictures" using two nested loops and printing characters to the console. These pictures include: a solid box, a solid box with a blank "X", an "X", a hollow box, a hollow box with an "X", and a right triangle. The program will begin by prompting the user for a number. This number will represent the size for each picture that will be printed to the console. In essence, the size will represent the number of rows and columns for each picture. NOTE: For each picture in the solutions, we will assume the size (the number of rows and columns) to be 10.		SideSectionTitle Taken from http://www.flickr.com/photos/daniello/565304023/ An image or By Students section
Solution Before we can actually start to think about solving these problems, we'll need to a piece of paper that we can use. FINISH THIS...
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import javax.swing.*; // so we can use JOptionPane to get user input

public class ASCII_Art
{
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		String input; // what we'll be using for input... we'll parse each input string to an int
		int size; // we'll read this value in from the console
		
		// this command allows the user to enter a number which will determine the size of our pictures
		input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter a number for the size of each picture",null);
		
		//now we need to parse our input string to an integer
		size = Integer.parseInt(input);

		//solid box
		//we're just printing the same number of '*'s for each row
		for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) 
		{
			for (int j = 0; j < size; j++) 
			{
				System.out.print("*");
			}//end for
			System.out.println();
		}//end for

		System.out.println();

		//solid box w/ an 'X'
		for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
		{
			for (int j = 0; j < size; j++)
			{
				if (i == j || j ==(size-1)-i)
				{
					System.out.print(" ");
				}//end if
				else 
				{
					System.out.print("*");
				}//end else
			}//end for			
			System.out.println();
		}//end for
		
		System.out.println();

		// an 'X'
		for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
		{
			for (int j = 0; j < size; j++)
			{
				if (i == j || j ==(size-1)-i)
				{
					System.out.print("*");
				}//end if
				else
				{
					System.out.print(" ");
				}//end else
			}//end for
			System.out.println();
		}//end for

		System.out.println();

		// a hollow box
		for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
		{
			for (int j = 0; j < size; j++)
			{
				if ((i == 0 || i == (size-1)) || (j == 0 || j == (size-1)) )
				{
					System.out.print("*");
				}//end if
				else 
				{
					System.out.print(" ");
				}//end else
			}//end for
			System.out.println();
		}//end for
		
		System.out.println();

		//Hollow box w/ an 'X'
		for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
		{
			for (int j = 0; j < size; j++)
			{
				if (i == j || j ==(size-1)-i)
				{
					System.out.print("*");
				}//end if
				else if ((i == 0 || i == (size-1)) || (j == 0 || j == (size-1)) )
				{
					System.out.print("*");
				}//end else if
				else 
				{

					System.out.print(" ");
				}//end else
			}//end for
			System.out.println();
		}//end for

		System.out.println();

		//right triangle
		for (int i = 0; i < size; i++)
		{
			for (int j = 0; j < size; j++)
			{
				if (j <= i)
				{
					System.out.print("*");
				}//end if
				else
				{
					System.out.print(" ");
				}//end else
			}//end for
			System.out.println();
		}//end for
		
		System.out.println("*** END OF PROCESSING. ***");
	}//end main
}//end ASCII_Art