Diamond with nested for loop in Java

Question

I am trying to display a diamond of asterisks using nested for loops.

Here is my code so far:

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Answer 1

In your first for loop remove = mark and just use < e.g. for (int i = 1; i < size; i += 2).

Full code:

int size = 9;

for (int i = 1; i < size; i += 2) {
    for (int k = size; k >= i; k -= 2) {
        System.out.print(" ");
    }
    for (int j = 1; j <= i; j++) {
        System.out.print("*");
    }
    System.out.println();
}// end loop

for (int i = 1; i <= size; i += 2) {
    for (int k = 1; k <= i; k += 2) {
        System.out.print(" ");
    }
    for (int j = size; j >= i; j--) {
        System.out.print("*");
    }
    System.out.println();
}// end loop