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Java Java Basics Perfecting the Prototype Looping until the value passes

Posted by Mark Cusack
Mark Cusack
3,909 Points

Lost : Need Help

Hi TeamTreeHouse,

I'm sorry I'm having a hard time with this question. I am finding it very frustrating because I don't even know what is being asked of me.

a) Did you want the person to have to key in an answer"console.readLine" or just print out the answer "console.printf(" ?. b) Did you want us to name the Person A.. EG.. Rick; or keep it Person A ?.

Can you please dumb this down for me. I assume these messages are going to a TreeHouse employee and not a forum where everyone can see how dumb I'm being.

PS: I understand all the coding up to this point, I just don't understand what is being asked of me in this question.

2 Answers

Jonathan Söder
Jonathan Söder
7,428 Points
Jonathan Söder
Jonathan Söder
7,428 Points

Hi Mark!

This goes directly to the forum so everyone can see it, don't worry though. We're all here to learn and we've ALL been there. I'm not gonna lie, I did this code challenge a few weeks ago but when I did it now it took me several tries. It's a little blurry, english is not my primary language.

This is basically asked of us:

  1. We need to surround the code with a do...while loop.

  2. They're giving us a hint about declaring the variable "who" outside of the loop so that needs to be done too.

  3. Something needs to be done about this line of code since we've already declared the variable outside of the loop.

String who = console.readLine("Who's there?  ");

4 In our while we need to check whether or not "who" is equal to banana. (I'm not sure about case-sensitivity, I could pass both with and without code to tackle it)

Mark Cusack
Mark Cusack
3,909 Points

Thank you Jonathan, I got it with your advise . I do agree with you that question was extremely poorly written. They almost lost me... I'm sure I will be asking you more questions :)

Jonathan Söder
Jonathan Söder
7,428 Points
Jonathan Söder
Jonathan Söder
7,428 Points

no problem, glad I could help!