Printing out characters in an X pattern using for loops

Question

I\'m trying to print this big X pattern:

 x       x
  x     x
   x   x
    x x
     x
    x x
   x   x
  x     x
 x       x

I can\'t figure out

Answer 1

For a little bit of fun:

int main (void)
{
    int i;
    int w = 7;
    for (i=1;i<=w*(w+1);i++)
        printf (
            "%c",
            i % (w+1) == 0 ? '\n' : 
            i % (w) == 0 || i % (w+2) == 1 ? '*' : ' ');

}