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Re: How do you print to standard output letters letters of 9 lines tall using characters of your choosing?

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alex rodriguez wrote:
> alex rodriguez wrote:
>> Hi, I am trying to solve the following problem. I would like to use the following program which takes an input of initials of somebody's name and displays them to standard output and extend this to output the initials to nine lines tall using characters of my choosing an example character could be "*". Does Java have a function that performs the operation of enlarging the standard output using characters of a persons choosing? Or Can someone write some simple code that a novice could understand to perform a similar function?
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> >  *http://math.hws.edu/eck/cs124/javanotes4/source/TextIO.java

It was the above link that made me believe your question pertained to the CS-124 course 
curriculum.

> Thanks Lew, I am not doing homework this is for my own experimentation and learning. Though your help is noted. I will read that link.

Regardless of that, the exercise is clearly constructed as a homework exercise. You should
understand it in those terms, under which it is not going to ask you something that is in the 
standard library because, as I said, the entire point of the exercise is to have you work it out 
for yourself. The fact that you personally were not assigned that homework assignment by a 
teacher in a university has not a jot of impact on what the designers of the problem had in 
mind.

So, no, you aren't going to find the answer already coded for you in the java.** or javax.** hierarchies.

The whole point is for you to reason through the problem using what is in the standard library.

The link at Patricia Shanahan's site holds thoughtful and useful advice on how you would go 
about reasoning through such a problem.

-- 
Lew

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How do you print to standard output letters letters of 9 lines tall using characters of your choosing? alex rodriguez <dralex73@gmail.com> - 2013-03-20 10:34 -0700
  Re: How do you print to standard output letters letters of 9 lines tall using characters of your choosing? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-03-20 12:18 -0700
  Re: How do you print to standard output letters letters of 9 lines tall using characters of your choosing? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2013-03-20 20:23 -0700
  Re: How do you print to standard output letters letters of 9 lines tall using characters of your choosing? alex rodriguez <dralex73@gmail.com> - 2013-03-22 03:49 -0700
  Re: How do you print to standard output letters letters of 9 lines tall using characters of your choosing? alex rodriguez <dralex73@gmail.com> - 2013-03-22 03:58 -0700
    Re: How do you print to standard output letters letters of 9 lines tall using characters of your choosing? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2013-03-22 13:44 -0700

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