Write a function that will take two numbers as input arguments and will print a set of concentric squares of stars whenever the row and column are odd.

Provide Answer

[James Tursa]

What have you done so far?

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/6200-tutorial-how-to-ask-a-question-on-answers-and-get-a-fast-answer

[Malik McMillon]

nothing. I need a starting point

[Image Analyst]

What row and what column? How does row and column relate to the 2 numbers you input? Are they the same, i.e., the two input numbers ARE the row and column?

What do you do if the row and column are not (both) odd? Just do nothing? Just do one square of stars but not two concentric ones? What if only one (either row pr column) is odd but the other is even? What do you do then?

There is just so much missing from the problem definition that I can't answer.

[Malik McMillon]

>> fnname(5,5)
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[Walter Roberson]

What would be the expected output for

fnname( sqrt(2), pi-4i )

?

Answer 1

[James Tursa]

Here is a starting point:

1) Create a function m-file in your working directory with an appropriate name. E.g.,

edit mycircles.m

2) Put this code into this file:

% Add a description of the function, inputs & outputs, here
function mycircles(a,b)
% Insert your code for printing the "squares of stars" here
end

Add your description and your code in the places indicated.

Answer 2

[Walter Roberson]

Starting points:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/8026-best-way-s-to-master-matlab

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/disp.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/for.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/fprintf.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/function.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/if.html

To add to this, you need to find out what the question means. Is it the row and column indices that might or might not be odd, or is it based upon the content of some array? How big should the squares be? What should be printed for the other locations? What do the two input numbers have to do with the rest of the question?

[Malik McMillon]

>> fnname(5,5)
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*** **

[Walter Roberson]

The only question that answers is what the name of the function should be.