Question

My program doesn’t print anything at all.

First I initialized the board in a seperate class (board):

       public class Board {
          public char board[][] = new char[9][9];   
          public void main(char[] args){

        for(int i=0; i<9; i++){
            board[i][0] = '_';
            board[i][8] = '_';
        }
        for(int h=0; h<9; h++){
            board[0][h] = '|';
            board[8][h] = '|';
        }

        for(int x=0; x>9; x++){
            for(int y=0; y>9; y++){
                System.out.println(board[x][y]);    
            }
        }
    }
}

Then called it in the main, with a PrintLine of “Hello World” to check that the code was being accessed. No errors are flagged up but neither does it print anything at all. The Main is below also just to check that i havent done anything simple and stupid:

    public static void main(String[] args) {  
    Ticker T = new Ticker();
    Board B = new Board();       
    for(int x=0; x>9; x++){
        for(int y=0; y>9; y++){
            System.out.println("Hello World");
            System.out.print(B.board[x][y]);

Answer 1

Besides the incorrect condition in the for loops you should consider using

public class Board {
    public char board[][] = new char[9][9];

    // this is the constructor, it will be called if you say "new Board()"
    // the "main" method you had here will not be called automatically
    public Board() {
        for (int i = 0; i < 9; i++) {
            board[i][0] = '_';
            board[i][8] = '_';
        }
        for (int h = 0; h < 9; h++) {
            board[0][h] = '|';
            board[8][h] = '|';
        }

        for (int x = 0; x < 9; x++) {
            for (int y = 0; y < 9; y++) {
                // just a print so it does not make new lines for every char
                System.out.print(board[x][y]);
            }
            // new line once one column (board[x][0] - board[x][8]) is printed
            // note: you proably want to turn around the x and y above since
            // I guess you want to print rows instead of columns
            System.out.println();
        }
    }
}

It fixes some problems

• the condition of the for loop that could never be true
• replaced the main method with a constructor so the code you wrote there is executed
• changed to print the stuff that is printed in the inner loop in one line, so it looks like a board

Now if you do

public static void main(String[] args) {  
    Ticker T = new Ticker();
    Board B = new Board(); // << this line triggers printing
    // ...
}

you should see some board like thing