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Landon Johnson
Java Web Development Techdegree Student 391 Pointsok updated code. I passed this once before. what am i missing
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// I have initialized a java.io.Console for you. It is in a variable named console.
String response;
boolean wrong;
do {
response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?");
wrong = (response.equals("no"));
if (wrong) {
console.printf("sorry try again"); }
}while(wrong);
3 Answers
Patrick Bluth
13,285 PointsHi Landon,
I realized my previous answer was incorrect so I went ahead and deleted it. I viewed the challenge and I now see your issue. I think your issue is simply that you did not capitalize "No", but instead wrote "no". Changing this should fix your issue.
Also, because you are doing a do while loop, you do not actually need a boolean for the code to be executed. You can simplify it a lot more by making the loop dependent on your response variable.
// I have initialized a java.io.Console for you. It is in a variable named console
String response;
do{
response = console.readLine("Do you understand while loops?");
}while(response.equals("No");
console.printf("Because you said %s, you passed the test!", response);
Sorry for my first answer, I should have been more thorough with the answer. I hope this one helps. Cheers!
Yanuar Prakoso
15,196 PointsHi Landon Johnson You only need to write your code as I shown you below:
// I have initialized a java.io.Console for you. It is in a variable named console.
String response;
do {
response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?");
} while(response.equalsIgnoreCase("no"));
you do not need the boolean:
wrong = response.equals("no");
to test the do while loop because the while part of the loop has done it for you. When I reviewed the challenge it does not require us to add another comment when the user answer no. Thus it will not necessary to do the if test using boolean wrong variable. But if you insist of doing so the main mistakes on your source code is you did not put another ')' in the end of while statement:
}while(response.equalsIgnoreCase("no");
it should be:
}while(response.equalsIgnoreCase("no"));
And if I may suggest you still do not need to use another boolean variable wrong since response.equals("no") will return boolean value needed by the if statement. For efficiency sake it does not need to add another variable since it was not repeatedly used anywhere else in the code. I propose this source code for your review:
// I have initialized a java.io.Console for you. It is in a variable named console.String response;
String response;
do {
response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?");
if (response.equalsIgnoreCase("no")) {
console.printf("sorry try again");
}
}while(response.equalsIgnoreCase("no"));
I hope this will help you
Yanuar Prakoso
15,196 PointsSorry me again. Hi Landon. If you want to use your current code: the only mistake was you just put :
wrong = response.equals("no");
meanwhile the response was 'No' not 'no', thus you should use response.equalsIgnoreCase as shown belo:
String response;
boolean wrong;
do {
response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?");
wrong = (response.equalsIgnoreCase("no"));
if (wrong) {
console.printf("sorry try again"); }
}while(wrong);
but as I mentioned in my answer before you do not need the wrong boolean variable to make this work Hope this will help