Dolores;

First, welcome to Treehouse and thanks for posting on the forum.

I understand how frustrating coding can be. Can you be a bit more specific as to where you are having a challenge and I am sure someone here on the forum will be able to assist.

Ken

This is how I programmed it and it will not satisfy the request to print - "Are you glad I did not say banana, supposedly after the do while completes..

How do I do it, so I can move on -just stuck and fustrated...

String who;
boolean banana;
do {
  console.printf("Knock Knock.\n");
  who = console.readLine("Who's there?  ");
  banana=(who.equalsIgnoreCase("banana"));
  console.printf("%s who?\n", who);
  if (banana) {
    console.printf("% are you glad I did not say banana\n",who);
  }
} while (banana);

Yes so far......How do we print outside of the Do While?

and thanks for getting back to me... Much appreciated.

Dolores;

For Task 2 you need to do a console.printf line that matches the punchline code provided. This would be outside of the do... while block, so after all of the other code written.

You need to use the string formatter in the answer as well, so it would look like:

console.printf("%s you glad I didn't say Banana again?", who);

Ken

Thank you ... Much appreciated... just was so frustrated that I couldn't move on..

Now the way I did it, just to see if I understand this correctly.

Does the Boolean store a 1 if the condition is met or a 0 and then, for the IF statement with it, does it do the console printf - if the object is a 1 ?

Example:

if (banana) { console.printf("% are you glad I did not say banana\n",who); }

What does this If statement actually read as?

Dolores;

Well, to be honest using a Java Boolean condition for this challenge didn't enter into my mind. I have seen several other questions on the forum where a Boolean value for banana has been tried, but to me that makes it more complicated than is necessary.

To answer your question though, let's assume that in your example banana is a Boolean value. A Boolean value is one with two choices: true or false, yes or no, 1 or 0. If banana was valued as true, or 1, it would translate into English as:

If true print this message "...".

Getting banana as a Boolean is doable, see some of the ways in the above reference, but is, in my opinion, a bit overkill for this challenge.

Hope it helps and again, welcome to Treehouse.

Ken

I understand, the interaction with you on my questions make this a great learning experience....Key to success.

Wait, I am still getting an error.. It asks for Task To do the Print out after the do while loop and it doesn't recognize my console.printf command?

I thought I was done, but the computer lost connection and when it reconnects, it puts me back at the beginning of the task and I am once again not being able to go forward because its says I did not do task2 - its not regonizing my answer.

Here is my whole answer:

String who; boolean banana; do { console.printf("Knock Knock.\n"); who = console.readLine("Who's there? "); banana=(who.equalsIgnoreCase("banana")); console.printf("%s who?\n", who); if (banana) { console.printf("% are you glad I did not say banana\n",who); } } while (banana); console.printf("% you glad I didn't say Banana again", who);

I see now that you look for exact match to be able to move on:

I type this :

My answer : console.printf("% you glad I didn't say Banana again", who);

and it received the Bummer comment that I didn't do it

When I retype it adding in the "?" it was then successful.

From You: console.printf("%s you glad I didn't say Banana again?", who);

Only difference between the two was "?" = to be able to move on - that is a little tough.. but I did learn a lot.

For anyone else getting stuck with this, although I know this has already been answered, it seems as though MOST people will hit up the forum when they have tried and tried and tried to figure out where their mistakes are, and the compiler is not giving you the answers you need to fix your errors. So most of us use the forum as a last resort kind of thing. At least I do. I know that if I am always getting the correct answers solely from the forum and not entering the code myself, then I am not learning or retaining anything, I am just trying to get past the challenge and at least for me, that is not my goal. I actually want to learn coding. Having said all of that, the following is the code I entered for challenge 1 and it worked for me:

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

^^^^ where I initially screwed up that code was putting a %s AFTER the who?, so I just added one where it didn't need it.

Then the 2nd challenge code I entered:

console.printf("%s aren't you glad I didn't say Banana again?", who);

I had no problems with the second part of the challenge. I do have to say that a lot of this new language and verbiage makes my brain hurt and the way the questions are formulated sometimes, do not make sense to me, but that is probably just me.

Hope this helps.

Good Luck!