Pyramid.java

// drawing ascii triangles,
// this program took some trouble to code
// and had to install new Java compiler... :/

import java.util.Scanner;

class Pyramid {
    // #wtf Java is such a bother...
    // int width;
    // int segments;

    static void repeat(char ch, int n) {
        while(n-- > 0) System.out.print(ch);
        return;
    }

    static void drawRow(int width, int x) {
        repeat(' ', x);
        repeat('#', width-2*x);
        System.out.println();
        return;
    }

    static void drawUpper(int width) {
        int x, max = (width/2);
        for(x = 0; x <= max; x++) drawRow(width, x);
        return;
    }

    static void drawLower(int width) {
        int x, max = (width/2);
        for(x = 0; x <= max; x++) drawRow(width, max-x);
        return;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        int i, width, segments;
        Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);

        System.out.print("[width, segments] please: ");

        width = sc.nextInt();
        segments = sc.nextInt();
        sc.close();

        for(i = 0; i < segments; i++) {
            if((i % 2) == 0) drawUpper(width);
            else drawLower(width);
        }
        return;
    }
}