java.lang.NullPointerException Error

Are you trying this out on Netbeans on your computer?

Netbeans doesn't support Console.readLine - I ran into this problem ages ago when I was doing some of my own code, and eventually just decided to use another application, since the issue looks like it dates back to 2008 and doesn't seem to be fixed yet.

To check your code, I'd either try it in workspaces (FYR, when I tester your code in workspaces, it worked fine), or set up a Java Development on your computer.

This website gives pretty clear instructions for installing a JDE on your computer

http://www.tutorialspoint.com/java/java_environment_setup.htm

Once you've installed Java and added it to your path, you can edit your data in any editor you choose (I use atom https://atom.io/ but you can use whatever you prefer).

To compile/run your code, just open up your console, go to the directory where you've saved your main class, and run as you've learned in the tutorials

The reason you're getting the NPE is that System.Console() returns null in IDEs.

Null is basically a "no value entered" (as opposed to 0, which is an integer of value zero).

When I was having my issues with Netbeans, I recall that I was advised that Eclipse had similar issues, which is why I went and moved over to the console as I advised above. I have a solution that should work with Eclipse below, however if you want to get it to work using console.readLine, I would recommend using a comnination editor/command line environment as suggested above.

Stack overflow has a solution that I've linked below, which bypasses the need for the console.ReadLine method, which is causing your issue. I tested it on Netbeans and it worked there, so it should work for Eclipse. The code used in this fix is stuff that's addressed in the Java Data Structures course (not the main focus of the course, but is shown there).

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4644415/java-how-to-get-input-from-system-console

Below is what your code should look like if you use the code in the above example.

import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class Test { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); System.out.print("How Old are you? "); String ageString = br.readLine(); int age = Integer.parseInt(ageString); if (age > 75) { System.out.print("You are too old to play this game.");
} else { System.out.print("Please enter a noun"); String noun = br.readLine(); System.out.print("Please enter an adjective"); String adjective = br.readLine(); } System.out.print("Your story"); System.out.print("--------------");

} }