/*
   An example of nested loops.

   Here is a slightly different, but equivalent,
   way of writing the inner if-else-statment
   from Checkerboard4.

*/

public class Checkerboard5
{
   public static void main( String[] args )
   {
      final int NUMBER_OF_COLUMNS = 16;
      final int NUMBER_OF_ROWS = 8;

      for (int rowCounter = 0; rowCounter < NUMBER_OF_ROWS; rowCounter++)
      {
         for (int columnCounter = 0; columnCounter < NUMBER_OF_COLUMNS; columnCounter++)
         {
            if ( (columnCounter + rowCounter) % 2 == 0 )
               System.out.print("*");
            else
               System.out.print(" ");
         }
         System.out.println(); // start a new line
      }

   }//main
}//Checkerboard5