Hi everybody,

I bought the book "Deitel C++ How to Program, edition 5", and i am doing the exercises of the chapter 4, the exercise 4.28 ask you to write a program that print the following figure:

* * * * * * *
 * * * * * * *
* * * * * * *
* * * * * * *
 * * * * * * *
* * * * * * *
 * * * * * * *
* * * * * * *

You must use only three output streams:

cout << "* ";
cout << " ";
cout << endl;

I wrote the program, but i think i did it by a hard way.

#include <iostream>
using std::cout;
using std::endl;
using std::cin;

int main()
{
   int counter = 8; // Contador para o loop
   int hcounter = 1; // Contador para linhas horizontais
   int test = 1; // Variavel para controle da linha 4, onde o contador tem que ser alterado

   while ( counter > 1 ) // Enquanto contador maior que 1
   {

      if ( counter == 5 && test == 1 ) 
      {
         counter = 6;
         test = 0;
      }

      if ( counter % 2 != 0 )
         cout << " ";

      while ( hcounter <= 7 )
      {
         cout << "* ";
         hcounter++;
      }

      cout << endl;

      hcounter = 1;
      if ( counter == 6 && test == 0 )
         counter = 5;
      else
         counter--;

   }

   return 0;

}

This code works, but i think i am having difficult with the programming logic, what can you recommend me?

Thanks and sorry the bad english.

Practice as much as possible.

And think simple.

You just have to give output "*" and " " in front of "*" for row 2, 5 and 7

for(i = 1; i <= 8; i++){

        //For row 2 or 5 or 7, we will give output  a space
         if( i == 2 || i == 5 || i == 7)
                cout << " "
          for(j = 1; j <= 7; j++)
                cout << "*"

         cout << endl;
}
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