do while loops

hey steve. thanks for that but im not yet familiar with != AND ==

Hi Natasha,

The do ... while loop needs a 'Boolean' expression to determine the route the code execution takes. That's an expression that gives a result of true or false.

So, the loop in this code will continue, erm, looping if the expression in the brackets after the while keyword is true. So, in my code above, the loop is saying "Do all the knock/knock stuff while the answer is not 'Orange'". Similarly, the while loop can be "Do all the knock/knock stuff while the answer is banana" - as there's only two possible answers in this example, these two things are the same statement.

So, != means not equal to. When I put while (who != "Orange") that means the whole loop will repeat as long as Orange is not entered as the answer. The alternative, while(who == "banana") is testing for equality, i.e. does the contents of the variable who equal "banana".

Steve, for strings you can't use == and/or != because that would check if the string instance is the same. The correct condition is !who.equals("Orange"). Beware of the leading exclamation mark which stands for "NOT". Moreover, in that case, I would use "equalsIgnoreCase" instead of "equals".

Very good point! Apologies!!

/* 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 = console.readLine("Who's there? ");

// Person B responds: console.printf("%s who?\n", who);

// ==== END PROMPTING CODE ====