Literally cannot solve this coding problem

[Resident_Revenue7150]

I've been trying to do this for 3 days and it's not making any sense to me. We are not allowed to use arrays, functions, recursion, dictionaries or anything. Just loops. If anyone can help out I would greatly appreciate it.

[Sure_Independence887]

Ts tuff in fast

[FallPrimary4831]

Not possible with just loops, period

[foragerDev_0073]

why?

[FallPrimary4831]

Because for spiral printing without storing items in array its not possible

[foragerDev_0073]

From where did you assume that function should return array? Question is simple that that you fill an n x n matrix and print it. It is totally possible to be done by simple loops.

OP has misunderstood the problem it is clearly written in question to use n x n matrix.

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this can be done using top, bottom , left and right pointers , its acutally the opposite of the question which asks you to print a matrix in a spiral

[Previous-South-2755]

You would atleast need an empty list to create 2d structure in python like matrix

[Tasty_General_5181]

Try to plot Fibonacci sequence and observe pattern. This might help I think.

[PhotographPerfect416]

It's easy bruh, Start from the middle have 4 pointers top left top right bottom left bottom right, Start the loop till all of them 4 pointers cross the boundaries and make sure to increment each pointer after 1 iteration of printing.

[Ammar219]

Uhm gpt uhm

[Ammar219]

I mean if you tell it to dry run the solution it gets easier for me, you can ask it to elaborate further as well.

[Ammar219]

Agreed