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Java Java Basics Perfecting the Prototype Looping until the value passes

alex albas
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alex albas
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 2,190 Points

Sorry but i can't pass this challenge, some help?

Some help..may be i don't understand the joke..

KnockKnock.java
/*  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 ====
do {

  if (who.equalsIgnoseCase("banana")) {
  who = console.readLine("Who's there?  ");
      }
 else 
   console.printf("Orange who?  ");
} while (who.equalsIgnoseCase("banana"));

2 Answers

Rob Bridges
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Rob Bridges
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 35,467 Points

Hey Alex,

Nothing to be sorry about, this all appears confusing until it starts to make sense. What they're asking you to is put the entire joke in a while loop while loop until who equals "banana" so until the user passes banana, they'll keep it repeating, I see you have if and else statements in your code, really all you need is to wrap the 3 lines in a do while loop, and make it run until the condition where who is equal to banana.

it would look something like below.

String who;

do {
    console.printf("Knock Knock.");
    who = console.readLine("Who's there?  ");
    console.printf("%s who?", who);
} while (who.equalsIgnoreCase("banana"));

Let me know if this helps.

Craig Dennis
Craig Dennis
Treehouse Teacher

Should actually be something like :

console.printf("%s who?", who);
Rob Bridges
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Rob Bridges
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 35,467 Points

You are right again Craig, looks like I didn't pay close enough attention to what the challenge initially had when I gave my answer. Thanks for pointing that out.