Thread: Very Beginner Questions. Need Help Please :/

Hopefully these haven't been answered before, but honestly I didn't even know what to search for. I am a beginner beginner beginner, and I can't stress that enough. I'm in my second week of an 8 month series with no prior programming knowledge whatsoever. The concepts have made sense thus far - it's just remembering the math needed that's been most time consuming ( just turned 30, it's nowhere near fresh in my mind ).

That being said, I'm completely stuck like chuck on a few exercises, and need help. These aren't graded assignments or anything, just suggested activities. So I'm not necessarily just looking for the code so I can run along with it, but I AM a visual learner and usually learn best when I can see something paired with the problem to put two and two together.

Whew. Okay.

The first one I'm struggling with involves:

having the user enter 2 words,
print both words on one line,
separating the 2 words with enough dots so the total character length is 30.

I know I need to use a System.out.println(".") inside a loop body but I have no idea how, and the related chapter does nothing to explain this.



The second exercise involves:

having the user input an integer,
we then ask the user for THAT amount of integers and then find the sum, i.e.

How many integers will be added?
5
Enter an integer:
1
Enter an integer:
2
Enter an integer:
3
etc, etc.

Once again, the related chapter has no examples of how to perform this aside from use a counting loop.

I was going to ask about 1 more exercise, but this is a lot for one post, so I may wait until I can grasp the ideas and concepts behind these two.

Thanks in advance for any help at all! I need every bit I can get, for fear of falling behind so early in this series of classes is getting to me.

Did you mark the thread solved? Are you done with it then?

yes I marked it solved. I had some help and got it figured out. you can delete the thread or if I should post the code (albeit not mine) I can do that for future reference.

Not necessary, especially if it's not yours. Better luck writing your own next time.