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Gregory Heard
1,975 PointsDo while loops
Already completed the excercise once, but going back over everything to make sure I understand and I can't work this out. A basic explanation on do while loops in this situation would help loads. Thanks in advance!
Greg
// I have initialized a java.io.Console for you. It is in a variable named console.
String question = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?");
String response = question;
boolean yesAnswer;
String response;
do {
String question = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?");
String yesAnswer = response.equalsIgnoreCase(response);
if (response == "yes") {
console.printf("CONGRATS");
System.exit(0);
}
}
while (Response == "no");
2 Answers
Kevin Faust
15,353 Pointshi. i wrote notes below. let me know if it makes sense
String response; //initialize a variable called "response"
do {
response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?"); //ask the user if they understand loops and store
//their answer in the response variable which we initialized at the top
} while (response == "No");
//now what we do here ^, is check if the user typed in "No". if the user typed "No", then we want to run the loop again and
// reprompt the user again and keep looping until they type in anything other than "No". you wrote down an if statement in
//your code above which is unncessary because this in itself has the same role as an if statement
console.printf("Because you said %s, you passed the test!", response); //print out message to console with user's repsonse
Gregory Heard
1,975 PointsThank you very much Kevin! Very helpful. I do have a habit of making things more complicated than they have to be!
Cheers,
Greg