Programming Praxis

I noticed the other day this list of the Top 75 Programming Interview Questions. I’m not sure of the origin of the list, and it does have a Java feel to it, but I was happy to see that we’ve covered almost all the questions on the list. One of the questions we missed is Number 57:

Write a program to print Floyd’s Triangle.

I wasn’t familiar with Floyd’s Triangle, so I had to peek at the solution. Floyd’s Triangle lists the numbers in order, in lines of increasing length, so a Floyd’s Triangle of size 5 looks like this:

1
2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15

Your task is to write two programs that print Floyd’s Triangle; you must write two different programs that use two fundamentally different methods. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.

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