Question

Write a program that prompts users to enter: A character to use (any character besides *) The width of the display The height of the display to produce an E shape. The middle horizontal line must print at line height/2. This is an example for width of 10 and height of 9 ********** * * *

Answer 1

The solution code is written in Python 3:

1. input_char = input("Enter a character (except *): ")
2. width = int(input("Enter a width: "))
3. height = int(input("Enter a height: "))
5. checkpoints = [0, height//2 - 1, height-1]
7. for i in range (height):
9. if i not in checkpoints:
10. print(input_char)
11. else:
12. output = ""
13. for j in range(width):
14. output += input_char
16. print(output)

Step-by-step explanation:

Firstly, we use input function to prompt use to input a character, width and height (Line 1 -3)

Next we create a checkpoints list to define the line number where the input character should be printed following the width number of times (Line 5).

Next we can create a for-loop to traverse through the number from 0 till height (exclusive of height itself) (Line 7)

If the current i is not found in the checkpoints list, the print function will only display one input character. Else it will print the input character for width number of times(Line 9 -14).

This will eventually result in an E shape.