My assignment is to make a house using for loops. The house should look like this

Question

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

so far i only have this

for (int i=1; i<10; i += 4)
    {

      for (int j=0; j<i; j++)
      {
        System.out.print("*");
      }
      System.out.println("");
    }
  }
}

Answer 1

The simplest decision will be:

    for (int y = 0; y < 6; y++) {
        int shift = y < 2 ? 4 / (y + 1) : 0;
        for (int x = 0; x < 9 - shift; x++) System.out.print(x >= shift && (y < 4 || (x < 4 || x > 5)) ? "*" : " ");
        System.out.println();
    }