New to Java

Hi all, first poster here! I'm a Bio major taking a few programming classes for enrichment. Ok enough about me...

I'm stumped on this assignment. It's the last part of a series, the rest were easy enough, but I can't figure this last one out. What I need is an output of x number of right triangles using nested while loops, from the smallest one (height of 1) to the largest (height of 'x'). Can someone give me an example of this?

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I figured out how to make a single right triangle:

import java.util.Scanner;


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

Scanner kb = new Scanner(System.in);
int a, b, c, x, row_count, col_count, tri_count;

x = kb.nextInt();

row_count = 1;
while( row_count <= x ) // row_count = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
{
col_count = 1;
while( col_count <= row_count ) // col_count = 1, 2, ..., row_count
{
System.out.printf("*");
col_count++;
}
System.out.printf("\n");
row_count++;
}

}
}


But I'm not sure how to translate this into the next part of the assignment. Thanks for any help!

Edited by: Robdog0077 on Mar 9, 2010 11:45 AM