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Java Local Development Environments Exploring Your IDE Clean up this mess

Madeline Yao
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Madeline Yao
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 9,611 Points

Struggle with the challenge for Hone Your Skills

I almost finished the challenge and ran the code on IntelliJ but the feedback is that the result has some flaw and I do not know what kind of flaw based on the result. Could anyone point that out? It will be glad to hear.

Messy.java
import java.util.*;

public class Messy {
    public static void main(String[] args){
    System.out.println("five");
    System.out.println("one");
    System.out.println("six");
    System.out.println("four");     
    System.out.println("two");
    //Please comment out this line and
    //this line as well with a hotkey that does multi-line commenting
    List<String> numberWords = Arrays.asList("six", "seven", "eight", "nine");
    for (String numberWord: numberWords) {
      System.out.println(numberWord);
      }
    }
}
results.txt
five
one
six
four
two
six
seven
eight
nine

Process finished with exit code 0

1 Answer

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points

To pass this challenge, one of the things you have to do is reorder the first five println()'s so the words 1 through 5 are printed in order. You can do this with the shortcuts to move code up or down in IntelliJ