Thread: Begginer / why is this not printing? + loop not working

Hello,

I am trying to make a program that prints triangle... and I did various test on each method to realise that the problem lies with this segment.

When I call this method, nothing prints out, I figure there is something with the loop that I am not realizing.

P.S the loop is backwards because it's supposed to have the right side edge parralel (when I try to print it out the spaces do not appear, imagine the x are space...), so as each line is looped the # of spaces diminishes
xxxx*
xxx*x*
xx*xx*
x*xxx*
*****

If anyone would be so kind as to help me out it would be greatly appreciated

Christian

public class test {
 
    public static void main(String[] args){   
 
        for (int countdown = 5; countdown <= 1; countdown = countdown--){     
            showNTimes(countdown, ' ');
            showNTimes(5- countdown, '*'); 
            System.out.println("");
        }
    }
 
    public static void showNTimes ( int nbTimes, char carac ) {
        for ( int i = 1 ; i <= nbTimes ; i = i + 1 ) {
            System.out.print( carac );
        }
    } 
}