Thread: Input error. Program skips several lines of code during execution.

I am a beginner experimenting with user input and data types. My program, chatbot, has an error in it that I cannot find. When run, it collects my name and age, but then skips right over prompting for my favorite pasttime, as if I had pressed the "enter" key prematurely. It then goes to the next question. I believe that this error has something to do with my use of the 'byte' data type, but I don't know how to fix it.

Here is my code:

import java.util.Scanner;
 
public class ChatBot {
 
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
 
		String name;
		System.out.print("What is your name? ");
		name = in.nextLine();
		System.out.println("Hello, " + name + ".  ");
 
		byte age;
		System.out.print("How old are you?  ");
		age = in.nextByte();
 
                \\ Here is where it skips ahead in the code.
 
	        System.out.println("So, you're " + age + " years old?  ");
 
		String hobby;
		System.out.print("What is your favorite hobby?  ");
		hobby = in.nextLine();
		System.out.println("So, you like " + hobby + "?  ");
		\\ Here is where it picks up.  It does prompt for my mother's name, but not my hobby.
 
		String mother;
		System.out.print("What is your mother's name?  ");
		mother = in.nextLine();
		System.out.println("So, your mother's name is " + mother + ".  ");
	}
 
}