Homework 5 - Methods/Functions: Drawing a box revisited

Due: At Midnight, October 26, 2001, submit is turned off automatically. Work turned in after that time will not be accepted for grading.

Program Description

Complete programming exercise 10 at the end of chapter 4 in the text.

For this assignment you are to decompose the drawing of a box into two functions, drawLine() (for drawing the top and bottom), and drawSides() for drawing the vertical lines that form the sides. These functions are to be called from another function, drawBox(). Your main program should prompt the user to enter the width and height of the box, and the string to be used to represent the lines of the box. Your main program then passes these values to the function drawBox().

Here is a sample execution:

os-prompt>java DrawBox
What is the width?
6
What is the height?
5
What string should I use?
testing

testingtestingtestingtestingtestingtesting
testing                            testing
testing                            testing
testing                            testing
testingtestingtestingtestingtestingtesting

os-prompt>

You can read the string using the following:

    String pattern = Console.in.readWord();

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