This application was written as a solution to the Give me a Diamond kata published on the Codewars website.

This application will accept a positive odd number input by the user, and return a string of asterisks to represent a diamond.

• Java 21 or above
• Access to command line interface / terminal

1. Download diamond.jar from the /out/artifacts/diamond_jar/ directory of this repository.
2. Move the downloaded file to another local directory on your device of your choosing.
3. Open your command line interface / terminal and navigate to the local location of diamond.jar.
4. Run the application with the following command:

java -jar diamond.jar

Once you have run the application with the command above, you will be shown the following text:

So you want a diamond? The size must be provided as an odd positive number.
Please enter the required diamond size and hit ENTER.

So you want a diamond? The size must be provided as an odd positive number.
Please enter the required diamond size and hit ENTER.
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So you want a diamond? The size must be provided as an odd positive number.
Please enter the required diamond size and hit ENTER.
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You must provide diamond size as a positive odd integer.

So you want a diamond? The size must be provided as an odd positive number.
Please enter the required diamond size and hit ENTER.
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Too small. The smallest diamond possible is 3.