The program is an illustration of loops and conditional statements
Loops are used to perform repetitive operations.
Conditional statements are used to make decisions
The program in Python, where comments are used to explain each line is as follows.
#The following is repeated 5 times; i.e. the rows
for i in range(5):
#The following is repeated 5 times; i.e. the columns
for j in range(5):
#For rows 2 and 5
if i == 1 or i== 3:
#For columns 1 and 5
if j == 0 or j == 4:
#This prints *
print('*',end='')
#For other columns
else:
#This prints an empty space
print('',end=' ')
#For other rows
else:
#This prints *
print('*',end='')
#This prints a new line
print()
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