This is my first time using a website like this, and I typically wouldn’t, however, I just cannot seem to figure out two parts of my code that are going wrong. I do not want someone to just give me the answer because I do need to learn, but I don’t know where to look after searching all day.

I am having two problems, one within the checkerboard method, occasionally my board will print diagonally and I have tried switching up many things to stop it, and also, my spiral method is always starting its x and y axis at the same place just different multiples of it (hopefully that makes sense & this is when I put the code on a random loop). There is a Graphics file my school has given to me to input the Graphics, hopefully that is not needed. If you can help in any way it would be greatly appreciated. I do not want anyone to do my homework for me, and I think I have done enough to where no one believes otherwise, however if I should be phrasing this a separate way, please let me know.

Thank you, Chase

Here is my Code:

import java.awt.Graphics ; import java.awt.Color ; import java.awt.Polygon; import java.util.Random;  public class abstractArt {  public static void main (String[] args)   {  DrawingCanvas canvas = new DrawingCanvas( ); Graphics g = canvas.getGraphics( ); Random rand = new Random();  // loop to draw items  //  for (int h = 0; h < 10; h++) //  {  //Generate random Color int red = rand.nextInt(256); int green = rand.nextInt(256); int blue = rand.nextInt(256); int black = rand.nextInt(256); Color randomColor = new Color(red,green,blue,black);  red = rand.nextInt(256); green = rand.nextInt(256); blue = rand.nextInt(256); black = rand.nextInt(256); Color randomColor2 = new Color(red,green,blue,black);  red = rand.nextInt(256); green = rand.nextInt(256); blue = rand.nextInt(256); black = rand.nextInt(256); Color randomColor3 = new Color(red,green,blue,black);  red = rand.nextInt(256); green = rand.nextInt(256); blue = rand.nextInt(256); black = rand.nextInt(256); Color randomColor4 = new Color(red,green,blue,black);  int w = rand.nextInt(101) + 50; int v = rand.nextInt(101) + 50; int checkerwidth = rand.nextInt(15) * 10 + 20; int squares = rand.nextInt(8) + 4; int spiralWidth = rand.nextInt (10) + 5; int spirals = rand.nextInt (11) + 4; int stars = rand.nextInt (50) + 5;  //Generate random x/y, p/q, a/b quardinate int x = rand.nextInt(canvas.getWidth() - 220); int y = rand.nextInt(canvas.getHeight() - 220); int p = rand.nextInt(canvas.getWidth() - w); int q = rand.nextInt(canvas.getHeight() - w); int a = rand.nextInt(canvas.getWidth() - w); int b = rand.nextInt(canvas.getHeight() - w);  Color c1 = randomColor; Color c2 = randomColor2;  int width, height, numbCircles, numSquares,numSpokes; // -- or ++ for int's  drawCheckerboard(g,200,200,checkerwidth,squares,randomColor,randomColor2); drawStar(g,a,b,w,stars,randomColor3); drawSpiral(g,x + spiralWidth,y + spiralWidth  ,spiralWidth,spirals,randomColor4);  //  } }  public static void drawCheckerboard(Graphics g, int p, int q, int   checkerwidth, int squares, Color randomColor, Color randomColor2) { int widthPerSqr = checkerwidth/squares; int n=1;                          // n = square color  for(int i = 0; i < squares; i++)    //i = row {   for(int j = 0; j < squares; j++)  //j = col   {      if ( (i % 2) == (j % 2) )     g.setColor(randomColor);     else     g.setColor(randomColor2);     g.fillRect(p,q,widthPerSqr,widthPerSqr);      g.fillRect(p,q,widthPerSqr,widthPerSqr);      n++;     p += widthPerSqr;    }    q-=widthPerSqr;   p -= checkerwidth;   }  }  public static void drawStar(Graphics g, int a, int b, int width,int  numSpokes, Color c1) { int centerX = a + width/2; int centerY = b + width/2; int radius = width/2; double angle = 2*Math.PI/numSpokes; g.setColor(c1);  for(int i =0; i<numSpokes; i++){   int spokeX = (int)(Math.cos(i*angle)*radius + centerX);   int spokeY = (int)(Math.sin(i*angle)*radius + centerY);   g.drawLine(centerX,centerY,spokeX,spokeY);   } }   public static void drawSpiral(Graphics g, int x, int y, int width, int   numSpirals,  Color c1)  {  int x1,x2,x3,x4; int y1,y2,y3,y4; int lineLength = (width/numSpirals)*4; int lineInc = lineLength; int centerX = x + width/2, centerY = x + width/2;  for(int i=1; i<numSpirals;i++) {   //Calculate starting points of each line of spiral   x1= centerX+ lineLength;   y1= centerY;   x2=x1;   y2=y1-(lineLength+lineInc);   x3= x2 - (lineLength + 2*lineInc);   y3=y2;   x4=x3;   y4=y3 + (lineLength + 3*lineInc);    //draw line segments of spiral   g.setColor(c1);   g.drawLine(centerX,centerY,x1,y1);   g.drawLine(x1,y1,x2,y2);   g.drawLine(x2,y2,x3,y3);   g.drawLine(x3,y3,x4,y4);    //update starting point and line length   centerX=x4;   centerY=y4;   lineLength+=(4*lineInc);    }  } }