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  • Jacob Wingfield
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    My code ain't working and I'm not sure why. When I run it in javac it returns a bunch of errors and I don't what's wrong

    Posted October 6, 2022 6:10pm by Jacob Wingfield
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  • Michel Spaniolo
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    i keep getting an error in jshell when i run the random function and i cant see what it is

    Posted May 28, 2022 5:47pm by Michel Spaniolo
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  • Henry Spock
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    Arrays.sort giving weird output.

    Posted July 9, 2021 5:28am by Henry Spock
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  • Joshua Thao
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    6,439 Points

    How to use this in Intellij instead of Jshell?

    Posted April 17, 2019 1:07pm by Joshua Thao
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  • Dinu Comendant
    Dinu Comendant
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    Why are we getting an error for System.out.printf/ln?

    Posted February 10, 2019 4:58pm by Dinu Comendant
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  • Dylan Cascio
    Dylan Cascio
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    Why does `"Apple".compareTo("apple");` return -32 and not 1, 0 or -1?

    Posted February 10, 2019 2:10am by Dylan Cascio
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  • Sondre Dahl
    Sondre Dahl
    10,086 Points

    Error message: attempted to call method pickLunchSpot(String...) which cannot be invoked until variable spot is declared

    Posted January 22, 2019 1:50pm by Sondre Dahl
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  • john DOe
    john DOe
    27,897 Points

    How do I compare by multiple things, such as length first and then the normal lexical string compare?

    Posted July 22, 2018 10:14pm by john DOe
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  • Ani Azot
    Ani Azot
    1,754 Points

    How do you know when to add parentheses to the end of certain methods?

    Posted June 6, 2018 9:47pm by Ani Azot
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  • lukej
    lukej
    34,222 Points

    Error Creating the pickLunchSpot Function

    Posted May 9, 2018 4:13pm by lukej
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  • Andre Kucharzyk
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    4,479 Points

    return spots[random.nextInt(spots.lenght)];

    Posted February 19, 2018 10:39am by Andre Kucharzyk
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  • Shaurya Grover
    Shaurya Grover
    15,815 Points

    you never wrote anything in the teacher's notes

    Posted November 6, 2017 9:36pm by Shaurya Grover
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    • i < videos.length

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  • Lukasz Walczak
    Lukasz Walczak
    6,620 Points

    Everything in Java is passed by value, is it not? :)

    Posted November 3, 2017 10:28am by Lukasz Walczak
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  • disheng wang
    disheng wang
    5,422 Points

    Class and Object understanding!

    Posted November 2, 2017 7:00am by disheng wang
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