On Thursday 10 November 2005 09:53 pm, Avik Chatterjee wrote: > ******* public class Starts { public static void main(String[] args) { printStarts(7); } public static void printStarts(int count) { int startsCount = 1; int spaceCount = count/2; while(startsCount <= count) { for(int i = 0; i < spaceCount; i++) System.out.print(" "); for(int p = 1; p <= startsCount; p++) System.out.print("*"); System.out.println(); startsCount += 2; spaceCount--; } } }