*Please help me clean this up and make it shorter*

import java.util.Random;

import java.util.Scanner;

public class battleShip {

public static void main(String[] args) {

int[][] board = new int[5][5];

int[][] ships = new int[3][2];

int[] shoot = new int[2];

int attempts=0,

shotHit=0;

initBoard(board);

initShips(ships);

System.out.println();

do{

showBoard(board);

shoot(shoot);

attempts++;

if(hit(shoot,ships)){

hint(shoot,ships,attempts);

shotHit++;

}

else

hint(shoot,ships,attempts);

changeboard(shoot,ships,board);

}while(shotHit!=3);

System.out.println(" Battleship Java game finished! You hit 3 ships in "+attempts+" attempts");

showBoard(board);

}

public static void initBoard(int[][] board){

for(int row=0 ; row < 5 ; row++ )

for(int column=0 ; column < 5 ; column++ )

board[row][column]=-1;

}

public static void showBoard(int[][] board){

System.out.println("\t1 \t2 \t3 \t4 \t5");

System.out.println();

for(int row=0 ; row < 5 ; row++ ){

System.out.print((row+1)+"");

for(int column=0 ; column < 5 ; column++ ){

if(board[row][column]==-1){

System.out.print("\t"+"~");

}else if(board[row][column]==0){

System.out.print("\t"+"*");

}else if(board[row][column]==1){

System.out.print("\t"+"X");

}

}

System.out.println();

}

}

public static void initShips(int[][] ships){

Random random = new Random();

for(int ship=0 ; ship < 3 ; ship++){

ships[ship][0]=random.nextInt(5);

ships[ship][1]=random.nextInt(5);

//let's check if that shot was already tried

//if it was, just finish the do...while when a new pair was randomly selected

for(int last=0 ; last < ship ; last++){

if( (ships[ship][0] == ships[last][0])&&(ships[ship][1] == ships[last][1]) )

do{

ships[ship][0]=random.nextInt(5);

ships[ship][1]=random.nextInt(5);

}while( (ships[ship][0] == ships[last][0])&&(ships[ship][1] == ships[last][1]) );

}

}

}

public static void shoot(int[] shoot){

Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);

System.out.print("Row: ");

shoot[0] = input.nextInt();

shoot[0]--;

System.out.print("Column: ");

shoot[1] = input.nextInt();

shoot[1]--;

}

public static boolean hit(int[] shoot, int[][] ships){

for(int ship=0 ; ship

if( shoot[0]==ships[ship][0] && shoot[1]==ships[ship][1]){

System.out.printf("You hit a ship located in (%d,%d) ",shoot[0]+1,shoot[1]+1);

return true;

}

}

return false;

}

public static void hint(int[] shoot, int[][] ships, int attempt){

int row=0,

column=0;

for(int line=0 ; line < ships.length ; line++){

if(ships[line][0]==shoot[0])

row++;

if(ships[line][1]==shoot[1])

column++;

}

System.out.printf(" Hint %d: Row %d -> %d ships " +

"Column %d -> %d ships ",attempt,shoot[0]+1,row,shoot[1]+1,column);

}

public static void changeboard(int[] shoot, int[][] ships, int[][] board){

if(hit(shoot,ships))

board[shoot[0]][shoot[1]]=1;

else

board[shoot[0]][shoot[1]]=0;

}

}