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martin li
1,026 PointsWhy is this wrong?? HELP ASAP!!
Now let's have our code make a joke. Read the code and comments below.
We want to move that prompting code into a do while loop. Wrap the code into a do while code block and check in the while condition to see if who is "banana" so that the loop continues.
HINT: Remember to move your who declaration outside of the do block so that it can be accessed.
/* So the age old knock knock joke goes like this:
Person A: Knock Knock.
Person B: Who's there?
Person A: Banana
Person B: Banana who?
...as long as Person A has answered Banana the above repeats endlessly
...assuming the person answers Orange we'd see
Person B: Orange who?
...and then the punchline.
Person A: Orange you glad I didn't say Banana again?
(It's a really bad joke that makes it sound like "Aren't you glad I didn't say Banana again?")
Let's just assume the only two words passed in from the console from Person B are either banana or orange.
*/
// ====BEGIN PROMPTING CODE====
// Person A asks:
console.printf("Knock Knock.\n");
// Person B asks and Person A's response is stored in the String who:
String who;
boolean response;
boolean orangse;
do{
who = console.readLine("Who's there? ");
response = who.equalsIgnoreCase("banana");
orangse = who.equalsIgnoreCase("orange");
console.printf(who);
while (response){
console.printf("%s who?\n", response);
}
if (orangse) {
console.print("Orange you glad I didn't say Banana again?");
}
}
// ==== END PROMPTING CODE ===
3 Answers
MUZ140265 Blessing Kabasa
4,996 PointsYou are complicating things. for the first stage you can try the code below.
String who;
// Person A asks:
do {
console.printf("Knock Knock.\n");
// Person B asks and Person A's response is stored in the String who:
who = console.readLine("Who's there? ");
console.printf("%s who?\n", who);
} while(who.equalsIgnoreCase("banana"));
After passing the first stage then for the second stage try the code below. if it helps please click best answer and if it doesnt ....give me a shout
if (who.equalsIgnoreCase("orange")){
console.printf(" %s you glad i did not ask for banana",who);
}
George Pirchalaishvili
3,747 PointsYou are trying to make it a lot harder than it is . Here is a lot easier version ;)
while (who.equalsIgnoreCase("Banana")){
who = console.readLine("%s who?\n", who);
}
console.printf("%s you glad I didn't say Banana again?", who);
Raymond Osier
16,581 PointsI got it to work this way ```java String who; // Person A asks: do{ console.printf("Knock Knock.\n");
// Person B asks and Person A's response is stored in the String who: who = console.readLine("Who's there? ");
// Person B responds: console.printf("%s who?\n", who); }
// ==== END PROMPTING CODE ==== while(who.equalsIgnoreCase("banana")); if (who.equalsIgnoreCase("orange")){ console.printf(" %s you glad i did not ask for banana",who); }
remember to define the String Variable outside the code block so it can be used as global variable and not just a local variable or so that is can be seen outside the code block
Brad Penney
8,424 PointsBrad Penney
8,424 PointsThis works perfectly. However, I encourage others to simply read this code and try to find where you went wrong with your own - don't copy and paste. You'll learn more...