Drawing diamond shaped pattern with C

[Irfanerol]

Hello,
I'm new in C language, nowadays I'm just solving the basic problems of C. I couldn't find a way to solve this problem. Could someone show me a way to solve this problem? I don't want C code. Only a simple guide for solving.
Thanks for help.

-- The program will get the height of diamond from keyboard and it will print a diamond
according to this height. If entered value is 9 output will be

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

[DevilsCharm]

Is the only input function from the user one of the height; nothing else?

[Irfanerol]

just height.
other lenghts of diamond will be calculated by our function

[John]

Am I missing something? The height of the diamond above appears to be 7.

[WingedPanther]

assuming you meant 7 for the input:
(7-1)/2 = 3, the number of spaces before the first/last *
each row decreases/increases the lead space by 1
each row increases/decreases the inner spaces by 2 (with 1 center space inserted as well)
So, your spaces are:
3
2,2+1
1,4+1
0,6+1
1,4+1
2,2+1
3
From that, you should be able to build 2 for loops to draw the diamond. Also, you need to be sure the value entered is odd.

[Irfanerol]

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[Irfanerol]

Ups, I've written the input wrong. Sorry for that.
Assuming the input 7 is right.
WingedPanther thank you very much for your explanation. I'll start to writting after this post. It'll work. Thank you very very much.

#include <stdio.h>

main()
{
	int h, led, inner, star;
	printf("please enter the height of diamond> ");
	scanf("%d", &h);
	
	for ( led = (h-1)/2 ; led<=0 ; led-- )
		printf(" ");
	for ( star = 1 ; star<=2 ; star++ )
			printf("*");
	for ( inner = 0 ; inner<=h-2 ; inner++ )
			 printf(" ");
	for ( led = (h-1)/2 ; led <=0 ; led--) {
			 printf(" ");
			 printf("\n"); }
	system("pause"); 
	return 0;
}

I couldn't understand what's wrong with this code? I think I did everything true?

[WingedPanther]

You need to wrap your for loops in a for loop to cycle through the rows.