Suppose, you have been given a non-negative integer which is the height of a ‘house of  cards’. To build such a house you at-least require 8 cards. To increase the level (or height)  of that house, you would require four sides and a base for each level. Therefore, for the top  level, you would require 8 cards and for each of the rest of the levels below you would  require 5 extra cards. If you were asked to build level one only, you would require just 8 cards. Of course, the input can be zero; in that case, you do not build a house at all.  Complete the recursive method below to calculate the number of cards required to build  a ‘house of cards’ of specific height given by the parameter.

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Suppose, you have been given a non-negative integer which is the height of a ‘house of  cards’. To build such a house you at-least require 8 cards. To increase the level (or height)  of that house, you would require four sides and a base for each level. Therefore, for the top  level, you would require 8 cards and for each of the rest of the levels below you would  require 5 extra cards. If you were asked to build level one only, you would require just 8 cards. Of course, the input can be zero; in that case, you do not build a house at all.  Complete the recursive method below to calculate the number of cards required to build  a ‘house of cards’ of specific height given by the parameter. 

public int hocBuilder (int height){ 

// TO DO 

OR 

def hocBuilder(height): 

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