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All right, did you figure it out?
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Here's my solution.
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First, we need to create
an array of good cow names.
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So I'll start by creating a new
string array called names.
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And setting it equal to
a few names that I like.
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Remember, to create an array
literal we can use the brackets and
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add the names in the middle.
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I'll go with Larry,
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Zelda, and Myrtle.
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Awesome, next,
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we need to create an array of cows that's
the same length as our names array.
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So create an array of cows called cows and
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set it equal to new Cow.
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Then we need to pass in an argument for
how long the array is.
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We could just type in 3 but
we can also type in names.length.
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Next, we need to use a for
loop to populate our new cows array
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with new cows using the names
from the names array.
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Let's start by just creating a for loop,
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for int i = 0, and we'll loop
while i is less than names.length.
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We could also use 3 or
cows.length, if we wanted to.
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Then we need to increment i by 1 and add
the body of our for loop with brackets.
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Inside the for loop, we need to set cows
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at position i equal to
a new Cow with the name
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from the names array at the ith position,
perfect.
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Finally, we want to use an enhanced for
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loop or foreach loop to
print the name of each cow.
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For Cow and we'll name it cow.
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So a cow in the cows array, and
for each cow in the cows array,
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let's print out the name of the cow.
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So we'll do console.printf.
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Then we'll use %s for our placeholder and
%n to add a new line.
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Then we need to fill in our placeholder
with cow.getName to retrieve the name.
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And semi colon to finish it off.
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And last but not least,
we just need to run it.
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Write a command to clear the workspace.
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Compile our arrays.java.
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And run it using the java command.
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And there we go, we've got cows
named Larry, Zelda, and Myrtle.
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