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Scott Sanders
Courses Plus Student 1,826 Pointsdo while loops
String response; do{ String response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?"); if (response.equalsIgnoreCase("no")) {console.printf("try again");} }while (response.equalsIgnoreCase("no"));
this is the code i have done for the exercise ^ and it dosn't work
String noun; do{ String noun = console.readLine("Enter a noun: "); if (noun.equalsIgnoreCase("dork") || noun.equalsIgnoreCase("jerk")){ console.printf("That language is not allowed try again/n/n");} }while(noun.equalsIgnoreCase("dork") || noun.equalsIgnoreCase("jerk"));
And this is code that works in the treestory What am i doing wrong
// I have initialized a java.io.Console for you. It is in a variable named console.
2 Answers
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherThe problem, I believe (although it's sort of difficult to read your code here) is that you're going way above and beyond what they're asking you to do. And while it may be functional, and it may be the smarter thing to do, it may still cause the challenge to fail. It's always a good idea to not do anything they don't explicitly ask for. I think the culprit may be the equalsIgnoreCase in this situation. Take a look at the code that passes:
String response;
do{
response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?");
} while(response.equals("No"));
edited for additional note
Additional note: They don't say to print anything with "Try again".
Scott Sanders
Courses Plus Student 1,826 PointsThanks yeah sorry about the code it looked nice until i hit to post the question then it smashed it all together but that was it the ignore case was stopping it all up
Jennifer Nordell
Treehouse TeacherGlad you got it working! Strange though (in my humble opinion) that they'd leave out the equalsIgnoreCase from the challenge when they just presented it.
Scott Sanders
Courses Plus Student 1,826 Pointsi find they do that quite a bit in the basic classes they show you something and then the challenge comes along and they don't want you to use it