Hacker Challenge: Printing a Star Pattern 2

Let's look at another approach to displaying a star pattern.

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Printing a star pattern using nested loops

In this lesson, we’ll look at another approach to creating the star pattern.

Problem statement

Write a program that takes the height (has to be a multiple of 4) as the input from the user and prints a star, as the shown below. The following shape is of height 12:

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