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Nancy Melucci
Courses Plus Student 36,143 PointsHard to read this version of Java, can't pass challenge
I really love this and all Treehouse tutorials. But I am used to starting my programs with public static void main(String[] args) { and not used to the console.printf version this tutorial is using (System.out.println.();). It's harder for me to read the code and I can't use my IDE (NetBeans) to test before doing the challenges. Anyway...why can't I make my challenge answer pass....I've compared this with various online Java sources for the do/while structure.
String who;
do {
console.printf("Knock Knock.\n");
String who = console.readLine("Who's there? ");
console.printf("%s who?\n", who);
} while(who.equalsIgnoreCase("banana"));
}
2 Answers
Ryan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 PointsYou have an extra closing curly brace after the while conditional that you don't need. Also, when you modify the who variable inside of the do-while loop, you don't need to place its type before its name, as you've already defined that variable. :)
String who;
do {
console.printf("Knock Knock.\n");
// Person B asks and Person A's response is stored in the String who:
who = console.readLine("Who's there? ");
// Person B responds:
console.printf("%s who?\n", who);
} while (who.equalsIgnoreCase("banana"));
Nancy Melucci
Courses Plus Student 36,143 PointsThanks....every version I've seen has a closing brace....but, I removed those two things and it worked great.
Ryan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 PointsIt does have a closing brace, but that brace comes after the do block:
do {
console.printf("Knock Knock.\n");
// Person B asks and Person A's response is stored in the String who:
who = console.readLine("Who's there? ");
// Person B responds:
console.printf("%s who?\n", who);
} // <-- there's the brace
Anyways, glad I could help! Happy coding! :)