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Android Build a Simple Android App (2014) Coding the Fun Facts Using an Array

Ege Yalcin
Ege Yalcin
1,061 Points
Posted by Ege Yalcin
Ege Yalcin
1,061 Points

Declare a String variable named bestSport and initialize it to the first element of the sports array.

String[] sports = { "Basketball", "Baseball", "Tennis" }; String bestSport = sports[0]; int numberOfSports; numberOfSports = sports.length; String lastSport;

lastSport = sports[3];

What do you mean by initialize ? set value to ??? I did that and nothing appear on the error tab... strange... :/

1 Answer

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Ege,

You're off by 1 on your index. Since the index is zero-based the 3rd (last) element would be at index 2.

Also, you can declare and initialize your variables in the same statement for tasks 2 and 3 to cut down on your number of statements. Similar to how you did for task 1.

String[] sports = { "Basketball", "Baseball", "Tennis" };
String bestSport = sports[0];
int numberOfSports = sports.length;
String lastSport = sports[2];
Ege Yalcin
Ege Yalcin
1,061 Points
Ege Yalcin
Ege Yalcin
1,061 Points

Ahahaha, I was very careful in the last exercises, I just close my eyes one second and I make a stupid error, thanks anyway :D

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

You're welcome. I think everybody probably has an off by 1 index error at least once while programming.