Hello,

I'm trying to create a gameboard for a battleship by using java.

this is an example of the gameboard:

 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ====================== 1|& |* |* |* |* |* |& | 2|* | | | | | |* | 3|* | | | S| | |* | 4|* | | | | | |* | 5|* | | | | | |* | 6|* | | | | | |* | 7|& |* |* |* |* |* |& | ====================== 

The ones with the whitespace is the actual field. So this is actually 5x5 matrix field.

And we guess where the ship is by putting an xy-coordinate. so the location of the ship above is (3,4) where the S is.

first of, how can I create a gameboard such as above by using 2D-array?

down is the code I have done so far.

String[][] battleField = new String[8][8]; for(row = 0; row