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Arjun Parashar
Courses Plus Student 2,150 PointsI'm getting super confused with this code challenge. Please help.
Please help me with this code challenge. I have watched the video twice but still I am getting confused. Please help.
bool levelFinished;
int rubies = 0;
int rubyReward = 7;
int rubyMax = 50;
while (levelFinished) {
rubyReward = arc4random()%2;
1 Answer
Ryan Lee
13,806 PointsHey Arjun,
So one problem is that you are using the levelFinished bool as your condition to check when to end the while loop. However, this bool has no value set so you're probably getting some kind of nil error I guess?
The challenge says that the condition we want to check is whether or not our variable "rubies" has exceeded the "maxRubies" variable, and if not, inside the while loop we want to increment rubies by rubyReward, so we're essentially just adding 7 to rubies as long as rubies isn't already >= 50.
Lastly, once the while loop finishes it's process, it will exit and when it exits - we know that rubies is now 50 or greater. So now we can set the bool to true for levelFinished
bool levelFinished;
int rubies = 0;
int rubyReward = 7;
int rubyMax = 50;
while (rubies < rubyMax) {
rubies += rubyReward;
}
levelFinished = true;