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A Wonderful Hourglass Program

Hourglass Program: solved Java program for ISC Class 12 Computer Science with complete BlueJ code, explanation and sample output.

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Write a program to take the input from the user for the row and column number. Print the no. of hourglass patterns that can be created from the given size of the matrix.

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import java.io.*;
class Hourglass
{
    public static void main()throws IOException
    {
        BufferedReader br=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
       System.out.println("Enter the row and column number for the matrix");
        int r=Integer.parseInt(br.readLine());
        int c=Integer.parseInt(br.readLine());
        int num=10;
        int Arr[][]=new int[r][c];
        for(int i=0;i<r;i++)
        {
            for(int j=0;j<c;j++)
            {
                Arr[i][j]=num++;
            }
        }
        System.out.println("THE MATRIX IS---------------");
        for(int i=0;i<r;i++)
        {
            for(int j=0;j<c;j++)
            {
                System.out.print(Arr[i][j]+"\t");
            }
            System.out.println();
        }
        System.out.println("_______The hour glass patterns are_______");
        for(int i=0;i<r-2;i++)
        {
            for(int j=0;j<c-2;j++)
            {
                int count=1;
                for(int k=i;k<i+3;k++)
                {
                    for(int l=j;l<j+3;l++)
                    {
                        if(count!=2)
                        {
                            System.out.print(Arr[k][l]+" ");
                        }
                        else
                        {
                            System.out.print("   "+Arr[k][l+1]);
                            break;
                        }
                    }
                    System.out.println();

                    count++;
                }
                System.out.println("------------------------------------------");
            }
        }
    }
}

Input:

Enter the row and column number for the matrix

4

5

THE MATRIX IS----------------------------------

10 11 12 13 14

15 16 17 18 19

20 21 22 23 24

25 26 27 28 29

_____The hour glass patterns are______
10 11 12

16

20 21 22

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11 12 13

17

21 22 23

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12 13 14

18

22 23 24

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15 16 17

21

25 26 27

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16 17 18

22

26 27 28

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17 18 19

23

27 28 29

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