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Java Java Basics Perfecting the Prototype Looping until the value passes

Caleb Austin
Caleb Austin
1,408 Points
Posted by Caleb Austin
Caleb Austin
1,408 Points

Help with this final challenge.

I am struggling to find out how to solve this final problem of the challenge. Any help would be appreciated.

Example.java 
// I have initialized a java.io.Console for you. It is in a variable named console.
String response;
boolean isInvalidResponse;
do {
  response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?");
  isInvalidResponse = response.equalsIgnoreCase("no");
  if(isInvalidResponse) {
    console.printf("I'm sorry. You'll get it in no time!  ");
  }
} while(isInvalidResponse);

1 Answer

Ted Dunn
Ted Dunn
43,783 Points
Ted Dunn
Ted Dunn
43,783 Points

You have a great deal of code in your do-while loop which is not called for by the challenge.

The second part of the challenge instructs you to use a do while loop to continually prompt a user as long as their response is "No". It does not indicate that you need to allow for differences in case as you have attempted to do.

String response;

do {
    response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?");
} while(response.equals("No"));

The third part of the challenge instructs you to print out a formatted string after the loop has finished execution.

String response;

do {
  response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?");
} while(response.equals("No"));

console.printf("Because you said %s, you passed the test!", response);