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Zachary Martin
3,545 PointsProgram runs but dashes won't display?
I wrote the colde along side craig and I unerstand it but for some reason it won't display dashes bu it will run the program which would also indicate there obviously errors in my code so you would think it should run..Can anyone help
Zachary Martin
3,545 Pointspublic class Hangman {
public static void main(String[] args) { // Your incredible code goes here... Game game = new Game("Treehouse"); Prompter prompter = new Prompter(game); prompter.displayProgress(); boolean isHit = prompter.promptForGuess();
if (isHit) {
System.out.println("You got it right!");
}
else{
System.out.println("Sorry try again");
}
prompter.displayProgress();
} }
Zachary Martin
3,545 Pointsclass Game {
private String answer; private String hits; private String misses;
public Game(String answer){
this.answer = answer;
hits = "";
misses="";
}
public boolean applyGuess(char letter) {
boolean isHit = answer.indexOf(letter)!= -1;
if(isHit){
hits += letter;
} else {
misses += letter;
}
return isHit;
}
public String getCurrentProgress(){
String progress = "";
for(char letter : answer.toCharArray()){
char display = '-';
if(hit.indexOf(letter)!=-1) {
display = letter;
}
progress += display;
}
return progress;
}
}
1 Answer
Gabbie Metheny
33,778 PointsI know it's a little late, so hopefully you've already solved it, but it looks like in Game.java, you typed hit instead of hits in your getCurrentProgress method:
if(hit.indexOf(letter)!=-1)
// ^ should be hits
In the future, try formatting your code with the Markdown Cheatsheet. It makes it much easier for others to read your code, which means they're more likely to spot what's wrong! In situations like this, where there's multiple files and a console involved, it can be helpful to create a snapshot of your workspace, too.
Hope that helps!
Zachary Martin
3,545 PointsZachary Martin
3,545 Pointsimport java.util.Scanner;
class Prompter {
private Game game;
public Prompter(Game game){
this.game = game;}
public boolean promptForGuess () {
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.print("Enter a letter: "); String guessInput = scanner.nextLine(); char guess = guessInput.charAt(0); return game.applyGuess(guess);
} public void displayProgress(){ System.out.printf("Try to solve: %s%n", game.getCurrentProgress()); }
}