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Java

Posted by Leon Kenedy
Leon Kenedy
Courses Plus Student 9,149 Points

Can you help me with part two with Java?

I really need help to this code challengehttp://teamtreehouse.com/library/java-basics/perfecting-the-prototype/looping-until-the-value-passes. Please help me with this.

Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher
Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Leon;

Can you show me the code you have tried?

Ken

Leon Kenedy
Leon Kenedy
Courses Plus Student 9,149 Points 
String who;

do{
//Here is the prompting code
console.printf("Knock Knock.\n");
who = console.readLine("Who's there?  ");
console.printf("%s who?\n", who);
} while(who.equalsIgnoreCase("banana"));

1 Answer

Ken Alger
STAFF
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher
Ken Alger
Ken Alger
Treehouse Teacher

Leon;

Let's sort this out.

Here is what this task is asking:

Print out the punchline, after the while loop completes, using the who variable.

The prompting code is accepting user input and for the sake of argument let's assume that it only accepts two words (strings) as input, Orange or Banana.

If you look at the comments, as long as we keep putting in Banana, it outputs Banana who. Hopefully that makes sense and you are good with that thus far.

So Task 2 want's us to produce the punchline:

Orange you glad I didn't say Banana again?

using the who variable, which you should be comfortable doing at this point in the Java Basics course.

Our output code, therefore, needs to look like:

console.printf("%s you glad you didn't say Banana again?", who);

Now where does that line of code go? Well, the task instructions tell us that it needs to be after the while loop completes, which makes sense since if who = "Orange" we no longer need to be inside the do... while loop.

Hopefully that points you in the correct direction.

Ken

Leon Kenedy
Leon Kenedy
Courses Plus Student 9,149 Points

Thanks, I was trying to do something else earlier, so thank you so much man.