ISC COMPUTER SCIENCE PRACTICAL 2020 SPECIMEN PAPER SOLVED QUESTION 3: MATRIX

Write a program to declare a square matrix M [ ] [ ] of order ‘N’ where ‘N’ must be greater than 3 and less than 10. Allow the user to accept three different characters from the keyboard and fill the array according to the instruction given below:

(i)                  Fill the four corners of the square matrix by character 1.

(ii)                Fill the boundary elements of the matrix (except the four corners) by character 2.

(iii)               Fill the non-boundary elements of the matrix by character 3. Test your program with the following data and some random data:

Example 1:

 INPUT: N = 4

 FIRST CHARACTER: @

SECOND CHARACTER: ?

THIRD CHARACTER: #

OUTPUT:

@  ?  ?  @

?   #   #  ?

?   #   #  ?

@ ?  ?  @

Example 2:

INPUT:

 N = 5

FIRST CHARACTER: A

SECOND CHARACTER: C

THIRD CHARACTER: X

OUTPUT:

A C C C A

C X X X C

C X X X C

C X X X C

A C C C A

The logic is quite simple, first fill all the elements of the matrix by the second charcter.

then overwrite the elements with row position raging from 1 to less than N-1 and coloumn

position ranging from 1 to less than N-1 with the third character.

Finally overwrite the corner elemets with the first charcter.

      for(i=0;i<order;i++) 

            for(j=0;j<order;j++)

                mat[i][j]=characters[1]; //filling all the elements with SECOND char

      for(i=1;i<order-1;i++) //filling the non-boundary elements with THIRD char

            for(j=1;j<order-1;j++)

                 mat[i][j]=characters[2];

      mat[0][0]=mat[0][order-1]=mat[order-1][0]=mat[order-1][order-1]=characters[0]; // filling the corner elements

import java.util.*;

public class ISC2020Q1 {

       public static void main(String[] args) {

       int N;

       Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);

       do {

             System.out.println("Enter the order of the square matrix:");

             N = in.nextInt();

             if(N>10 || N <3)

                    System.out.println("OUT OF RANGE,TRY AGAIN");

             }while(N>10 || N <3);

       MatrixPattern obj = new MatrixPattern(N);

       obj.inputCharacters();

       obj.inputElementsInMatrix();

       obj.display();

       in.close();

       }

}

class MatrixPattern {

       public void inputElementsInMatrix() {

             int i,j;

             for(i=0;i<order;i++) 

            for(j=0;j<order;j++)

            mat[i][j]=characters[1];

             for(i=1;i<order-1;i++) //filling the non-boundary elements

            for(j=1;j<order-1;j++)

                 mat[i][j]=characters[2];

             mat[0][0]=mat[0][order-1]=mat[order-1][0]=mat[order-1][order-1]=characters[0]; // filling the corner elements

             for(i=0;i<3;i++)

                    System.out.println(disp[i]+" CHARACTER IS:"+characters[i]);

       }

       public void inputCharacters() {

             Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);

             System.out.println("Enter thecharacters");

             s=in.nextLine();

             characters =s.toCharArray();

             in.close();

       }

       public void display() {

                for(int i=0;i<order;i++) {

                    for(int j=0;j<order;j++)

                          System.out.print(mat[i][j]+"  ");  

                 System.out.println();

                }

       }

       MatrixPattern(int N){

             order = N;

             mat = new char[order][order];

             }

       private String s;

       private String[] disp = {"FIRST","SECOND","THIRD"};

       private char[] characters;

       private char[][] mat;

       private int order;

}