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Java

Posted by Damon Tunstall
Damon Tunstall
2,327 Points

Coding challenge: Conditional ints Where am I going wrong? Is it to do with console??

Hey, I am struggling with this coding challenge. It is Task 2.

The task is:

Add an if statement to see if there are less than 4 people. Then write out to the console, “Your table is ready”

My code is:

import java.io.Console;

Console console = System.console();

int numberOfPeople = 3;

if (numberOfPeople < 4){
  console.printf("Your table is ready");
}

My output is:

JavaTester.java:125: error: illegal start of expression import java.io.Console; ^ JavaTester.java:125: error: not a statement import java.io.Console; ^ 2 errors

Where am I going wrong?

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points

The console object is imported and instantiated for you automatically in most of these challenges, so importing and instantiating it again will cause an error.

If you remove the two first lines and just leave this code:

  int numberOfPeople = 3;

  if (numberOfPeople < 4){
    console.printf("Your table is ready");
  }

Then you should be able to successfully complete the challenge.

Damon Tunstall
Damon Tunstall
2,327 Points

This worked. Thank you :-)