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Henry Aaron
1,213 Pointsi can't get passed a challenge my code took too long to run
Im pretty sure I'm stuck in an infinite loop with my code and i don't know how to fix it
// I have initialized a java.io.Console for you. It is in a variable named console.
String response;
response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?");
if (response.equals("No"))
{
}
while (response.equalsIgnoreCase("No"))
1 Answer
Chase Marchione
155,055 PointsHi Henry,
The challenge is looking for a do-while loop, so let's use that syntax. Essentially, we are telling the program to do something again and again until something specific occurs. In the case of the do-while loop syntax, we'll set our condition for the loop to end with the while clause only.
We'll move the prompt inside of the loop, because that is what we want to run again and again until we get our desired answer. We'll keep the actual variable declaration outside of the loop, so that the declaration doesn't attempt to run again.
We are saying: Let's run, or do, the prompt again and again while the user hasn't given us a no answer (yet.)
We'll make sure that the while statement ends with a semi-colon, since the compiler needs to know that we want to terminate the statement there.
String response;
do
{
response = console.readLine("Do you understand do while loops?");
}
while (response.equalsIgnoreCase("No"));
Hope this helps!