his zyLab activity is the traditional programming assignment, typically requiring a few hours over a week. The previous sections provide warm up exercises intended to help a student prepare for this programming assignment.

$(1)$ Output this tree. $(2$ pts$)$

$*$

$***$

$*****$

$*******$

$***$

$(2)$ Below the tree $($with two blank lines$),$ output this cat. $(3$ pts$)$

$/\backslash /\backslash$

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$==$

$---$

Hint: A backslash $\backslash$ in a string acts as an escape character, such as with a newline

$.$ So$,$ to print an actual backslash, escape that backslash by prepending another backslash. Ex: The following prints a single backslash: System.out.println$("\backslash \backslash ")$;