You’ve got two tools so far, println and print, plus the confidence that a compiler error isn’t the end of the world. That’s genuinely enough to build almost anything a beginner program needs. This exercise asks you to prove it, using nothing more advanced than what you already have.
Printing a shape out of text characters is one of the oldest exercises in programming, and it survives because it tests something real: can you look at a picture and turn it into exact, row-by-row output? That’s not a toy skill. It’s the same thing you’ll do later when you’re lining up columns in a report, padding a table so it reads cleanly in a terminal, or getting a receipt to print without its numbers drifting out of line. Might as well build the habit now, while the tools are simple.
Get your program to print exactly this:
* ******** *** *Five rows, five stars across the widest one, right in the middle.