Exercise
Hollow square
Objetive
Write a Visual Basic (VB.Net) program that asks for a symbol and a width, and displays a hollow square of that width using that symbol for the outer border, as shown in this example:
Enter a symbol: 4
Enter the desired width: 3
444
4 4
444
Code
Imports System
Public Class exercise39
Public Shared Sub Main()
Dim n As Integer
Dim i, j As Integer
Console.Write("Enter number for the border of the square: ")
n = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine())
Console.Write("Enter total: ")
width = Convert.ToInt32(Console.ReadLine())
i = 0
While i
Console.Write(n)
i += 1
End While
Console.WriteLine()
i = 0
While i - 2
Console.Write(n)
j = 0
While j - 2
Console.Write(" ")
j += 1
End While
Console.WriteLine(n)
i += 1
End While
i = 0
While i
Console.Write(n)
i += 1
End While
Console.WriteLine()
End Sub
End Class