How to display square within a square

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I'm attempting to get my program to output a square inside of a square using only the functions I've defined, but I can't seem to get everything to line up. I've gotten hollow squares and half-filled squares, but this square inside a square business I can't figure out. Here is the program with example output:

Python

def star():
""" Display a star without the normal new line """
print('*', end='')

def fill():
    """ Display a fill character without the normal new line """
    print('#', end='')

def space():
    """ Display a space without the normal new line """
    print(' ', end='')

def newline():
    """ Display a new line """
    print()

def squareInSquare(outerSize, innerSize):
    """ Display a small square inside a larger square
        - This example has outerSize = 10, innerSize = 4

    print('Outer and inner square of size', outerSize, 'and', innerSize)

What I have tried:

I'm not sure how to approach this, I have learned how to do a hollow square and a filled square, but I'm not sure how to combine them into what this is supposed to be.

Posted 19-Mar-19 19:13pm

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Updated 21-Mar-19 0:55am

Patrice T

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Richard MacCutchan 20-Mar-19 5:16am

Where is the missing code and the output?

Mohibur Rashid 20-Mar-19 5:59am

Lost in interpretation!!

Patrice T 20-Mar-19 9:23am

Complete your code with what you have done so far (single square).

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Patrice T · Answer 1 · 2019-03-20T17:53:00

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I'm not sure how to approach this, I have learned how to do a hollow square and a filled square, but I'm not sure how to combine them into what this is supposed to be.

The job you are learning is about creating algorithms, if we just give you a full solution, you will learn nothing and it will defeat the purpose of homework.
Learning to create algorithms is done with experience and experimenting, you learn by seeing what is working and what is not. This is a first hand process, nobody can do it for you.

Advice: do a set of related exercises more and more complicated.
- print a playfield of 20x30 filed with '.', make it so tiy can change playfield size
- add feature to print a star '*' at given position
- change code for more stars
- add feature to print a square '#' at given position
- change code for more squares
- add feature to print a rectangle '#' at given position
- change code for more rectangles
- add feature to print squares centered on playdield

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Debugger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[^]

Mastering Debugging in Visual Studio 2010 - A Beginner's Guide[^]
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27.3. pdb — The Python Debugger — Python 3.6.1 documentation[^]
Debugging in Python | Python Conquers The Universe[^]
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The debugger is here to only show you what your code is doing and your task is to compare with what it should do.

CPallini · Answer 2 · 2019-03-21T00:55:00

Solution 2

With two nested loops you may iterate over all the outer square area.

At each position (row, col) check if you are either on the

outer square border

or on the

inner square border

or, eventually, on the

blank area

Print accordingly the (row, col) character.

Posted 21-Mar-19 0:55am

CPallini