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Courses Plus Student 2,339 PointsHelp Cant figure out whats actually wrong with the code
Print a menu showing off famous programmers
public class Programmers {
public void printMenu() {
String[] programmers = {
"Yukihiro Matsumoto",
"David Nolen",
"Grace Hopper",
"Linus Torvalds",
"You"
};
System.out.println("Choose a programmer:");
// TODO: Print out a menu by looping through the programmers array.
/*
The menu should be in the form of (each on a line of its own, starting with 1):
1. Yukihiro Matsumoto
2. David Nolen
...
*/
}
for (int i = 0; i < programmers.length; i++) {
String programmers = programmers[i];
System.out.printf("Hey %s! These are Famous Programmers! %n", programmers);
}
}
}
1 Answer
james south
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 33,271 Pointsthe closing curly brace } right above the for loop is extra. it is closing off the printMenu method with the loop outside and therefore an extra closing } beneath. remove the } above the for loop. then, in the loop your string variable programmers is conflicting with the array of the same name, so change one of them.