How come no one will help me with my question? I'm stuck and I need some help.

Hi Jennifer,

Apologies, I hadn't seen your previous posts.

I'll have a look and see if I can figure out the issue with your code. Which variables are holding the wrong value or are not picking up on what you're expecting them to? I can make sure to keep an eye on those.

I'll have a look at your code and see what results I get with it.

Steve.

This seems to be working fine for me. It doesn't handle a blank or string input well during the loop and there's no prompting if you guess wrongly but it works fine.

What scenario did you create that caused an issue?

Steve.

Thanks Steve, and no problem. I apologize on the mistake you were talking about as well. I accidently posted the wrong version of my workspace but I updated it. --it was supposed to be :

int rand = randomNumber.nextInt(this.maxItems)+1;

As far as the rest of my code, here is what we are looking at:

public String fillJar() {

    Random randomNumber = new Random();
    int rand = randomNumber.nextInt((this.maxItems - minItems)+1);

    Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in);
    int guess = Integer.parseInt(scanner.nextLine());

    int count = 1;
    do {
      Scanner scanner1 = new Scanner(System.in);
      System.out.println("\nHow many " + itemName + " are in the jar?  Pick a number between 1 and " + maxItems);
       guess = Integer.parseInt(scanner1.nextLine());
       count ++;
       if(guess==rand){
         System.out.println("You got it in " + count + " attempt(s)");
      }

      } while(guess != rand);  
    return "You got it in X attempt(s)";

    } 

The problem I'm having is in my fillJar() method. I want the jar to be filled with a random number of items between 1 and the variable I created (public int maxItems). So, if maxItems = 50 then I want my random number to be between 1 and 50. Next I allow the user to guess the random number. As soon as they guess it correctly they should be prompted that they guessed it, and told how many guesses it took. This works, but returns inaccurate information.

Steve,

Like I said, it runs fine for me. But try running it 5 times with the maxItem set for 5 each time and you see what I'm talking about. Sometimes it catches it on the first try, but other times it doesn't--unless there is something wrong with my console.

When it "glitches" my guesses would be 1,2,3,4,5... since none of them worked by sixth guess would be 1 then 2 then 3...making '3' my third and 8th guess. Sometimes the program CORRECTLY stops at three guesses, but sometime it waits until I guess it a second time. Does that make sense? Because it is making no sense to me :(

Hey Steve, all of your suggestions worked and I fixed my count as well to return the correct number (count = 0 instead of count = 1). I also found that the random number was still returning 0 sometimes, so I updated my code to fix it. I think I have it now. fingers crossed I appreciate your help and I especially appreciate your notes in the code. Everything made sense. Thanks again!

public void fillJar() {
    Scanner scanner1 = new Scanner(System.in);
    Random randomNumber = new Random();
    int rand = randomNumber.nextInt((this.maxItems - minItems)+1);
    if(rand==0){ // I added this to catch when the random number equals 0, and make it equal 1 instead
      rand = rand +1;
    }
    int guess;
    int count = 0;
    do {

      System.out.println("\nHow many " + itemName + " are in the jar?  Pick a number between 1 and " + maxItems);
       guess = Integer.parseInt(scanner1.nextLine());
       count++;
       if(guess==rand){
         System.out.println("You got it in " + count + " attempt(s)");
      }

      } while(guess != rand);  

    }

Glad to hear you're making progress. Good work!

Let me know how you get on - and what's minItems for?

Steve.