DWITE Online Computer Programming Contest

Candy Piles

October 2012
Problem 1

After collecting a lot of candy this Halloween, the most obvious next step is to organize it into piles and draw graphs of the loot. Of course.

The input file DATA1.txt will contain 5 lines, each being a single positive integer describing the height of the candy pile.

The output file OUT1.txt will contain an ASCII drawing of the piles of candy. A triangle of asterisks will approximate such piles. Refer to the sample below.

Sample Input (first 3 shown):
2
1
3
Sample Output (first 3 shown):
*
**
*
*
*
**
***
**
*