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Java

What the heck Treehouse? I am terribly stuck on your excercise and It wont even let me ask a question on the direct ex.

this is the question: Now let's have our code make a joke. Read the code and comments below.

We want to move that prompting code into a do while loop. Wrap the code into a do while code block and check in the while condition to see if who is "banana" so that the loop continues.

HINT: Remember to move your who declaration outside of the do block so that it can be accessed.

My attempt:

/*  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 ====

ERROR

I added some markdown to make your code a little more readable. Please remember to add NameOfTheLanguageHere before code and after.

Goodluck! --Ricky

1 Answer

Can you please post your code? The things you posted are comments, which are not read by programme since they have // in front of them.