I'm sure I answered the question correctly am I missing something?

Hey Christopher, if you're doing the challenge Introduction to Arrays, it seems like either the question content has changed (it's been awhile since the thread started), or things got mixed-up along the way because there is no need to use the random number generator for this challenge.

String[] frogNames = {"Mike", "Sam", "Joe"};
String bestFrog = frogNames[0];
int numberOfFrogs = frogNames.length;
String lastFrog = frogNames[2];

Right, I have figured out why it is saying it is wrong. The question hasn't told us to change the result of best frog to the number of frogs.

The code should be.....

String[] = frogNames { "Barry", "George", "Timmy"};

//Answer to this question

int numberOfFrogs = frogNames.length;

//Answer from the previous question below because the question hasn't asked us to change this

bestFrog = frogNames[0];

The randomNumber doesn't even get mentioned in any of the questions so it should't be included in any of the answers.

Hope this helps anyone who is stuck. It seems the rule of thumb is to alter your answer to exactly what the question is asking not necessarily what should be the complete result of the code.

Hi Mark,

To find the length of an array you should use the .length property, like the following:

// Declare array of frogs
String[] frogNames = {"Frog1, "Frog 2","Frog 3"};
// Get total number of frogs
int numberOfFrogs = frogNames.length;

Mark, as far as I can see you haven't defined the randomGenerator variable. You're both looking at something along the following lines

String bestFrog = "";
String[] frogNames = { "George", "Barry", "Timmy", };
// Total Frogs
int NumberOfFrogs = frogNames.length;
// Get Random Number
Random randomGenerator = new Random;
int randomNumber = randomGenerator.nextInt(NumberOfFrogs)
// Set variable
bestFrog = frogNames[randomNumber];

Hope this helps

In this frog lesson we are not looking for a random frog just a list of frogs

Yes that was what I was doing then I added the following to finish the string

String bestFrog = "";

bestFrog = frogNames [randomNumber];

and it is not accepting my answer.

In full for my answer i have

String bestFrog = "";

String[] frogNames = { "frog1", "frog2", "frog3" };

int numberOfFrogs = randomGenerator.nextInt(frogNames.length);

bestFrog = frogNames[numberOfFrogs];

and also tried

String bestFrog = "";

String[] frogNames = { "frog1", "frog2", "frog3" };

int numberOfFrogs = frogNames.length;

bestFrog = frogNames[numberOfFrogs];

Hi

Im stuck on this same task. Have you gotten any further with it. My Code is

String[] frogNames = { "George", "Barry", "Timmy", };

int numberOfFrogs = frogNames.length; String bestFrog = frogNames[numberOfFrogs];

I can't see where I'm going wrong.

WTF. Does any1 have the solution to this?

Hi guys.

Anyone who is having trouble with this question just look at my explanation above.

Regards

Thanks Adam Davies! I see the problem, for some reason steps 2 & 3 are switched around. Shame. 3 needs to be done before 2, so look at Adam Davies code.

Sadly I was stuck because the challenge never notified or said anything about what to input into the array.

adding

bestFrog = frogNames[0];

is all it took.

I had everything right except the frogNames[0];

annoying,

You got to add String to bestFrog like this String bestFrog = frognames[0];