PSET 1: Mario help (Drawing pyramid)

Question

Stuck on Pset 1 - drawing the pyramid (prompting the user for a number between 0 and 23 working fine).

When I try to execute this program, it goes crazy- is there something wrong with my for loops?

Thank you!

Answer 1

spaces-- will decrement spaces, so spaces < height - row - 1 will stay true until the integer does an overflow (going from least possible value to highest possible value by subtraction of one).

You probably meant spaces++.

Usually, if you don't care for the exact value of the counter (or one of these happens to be fine for you), you'd pick your loop either as

for (int counter = 0; counter < repetitions; counter++)

or

for (int counter = repetitions; counter > 0; counter--)

as both clearly show the number of repetitions.

The comparison operator should match the direction of the counter.