Thread: Not initializing

Hi, I am stuck on my last method, no problem with the first two. Error lines are on lines 44(chill), 86(temperature), 86(windSpeed). All are "may not have initialized". I do not know why the first two are good but the last method is wrong.

 
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.io.Console;
 
class WeatherProgram{
 
	public static void main(String[]args){
 
		double fahrenheit;
		double celsius;
		double temperature;
		double windSpeed;
		double chill;
		int reply;
		String reply2 = "y";
		Console c = System.console();
		Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
 
		while(reply2.equals("y")){
			System.out.println("Welcome to Weather Conversion. Please choose one of the following numbers: "+"\n");
			System.out.println("1. Fahrenheit to Celsius");
			System.out.println("2. Celsius to Fahrenheit");
			System.out.println("3. Windchill");
			System.out.println("4. Quit");
			System.out.println(" ");
			reply = scan.nextInt();
 
			if (reply == 1){
				System.out.println("Please input fahrenheit temperature: ");
				fahrenheit = scan.nextDouble();
				fToC(fahrenheit);
			}
 
			if (reply == 2){
				System.out.println("Please input celsius temperature: ");
				celsius = scan.nextDouble();
				cToF(celsius);
			}
 
			if (reply == 3){
				System.out.println("Please input the temperature in degrees fahrenheit: ");
				temperature = scan.nextDouble();
				System.out.println("Please input wind speed in MPH: ");
				windSpeed = scan.nextDouble();
				wcCalc(chill);
			}
			reply2 = c.readLine("Do you wish to continue Weather Conversion, (y/n)?: ");
		}
		System.out.println("Thank you");
	}
 
	public static void fToC(double f){
		double celsius;
		celsius = ((f-32)*5/9);
 
		if (celsius<1){
			System.out.println(f + " Fahrenheit = " + celsius + " Celsius. Temperature is below freezing!");
		}
		if (celsius>32){
			System.out.println(f + " Fahrenheit = " + celsius + " Celsius. It is hot!");
		}
		else{
			System.out.println(f + " Fahrenheit = " + celsius + " Celsius.");
		}
	}
 
	public static void cToF(double c){
		double fahrenheit;
		fahrenheit = ((c*9/5)+32);
 
		if (fahrenheit<33){
			System.out.println(c + " Celsius = " + fahrenheit + " Fahrenheit. Temperature is below freezing!");
		}
		if (fahrenheit>90){
			System.out.println(c + " Celsius = " + fahrenheit + " Fahrenheit. It is hot!");
		}
		else{
			System.out.println(c + " Celsius = " + fahrenheit + " Fahrenheit.");
		}
	}
 
	public static void wcCalc(double wc){
		double chill;
		double temperature;
		double windSpeed;
 
		chill = (35.74 + 0.6215 * temperature + (0.4275 * temperature - 35.75) * Math.pow(windSpeed,0.16));
 
		if (chill<-30){
			System.out.println("Windchill = " + wc + " Degrees Fahrenheit. Dangerous Windchill!");
		}
		else{
			System.out.println("Windchill = " + wc + " Degrees Fahrenheit");
		}
	}
}

Yeah so why don't you initialize them?
They are not your class variables, so they will not auto instantiate.
And the error is because you have never assigned the values to them and you try to pass them to some function, so compiler will ofcourse ask you to initialize them.

OK, I am stuck. This code works and the one above doesn't. I do not know/understand why variable of third method doesn't initialize, but these do.Help...

import java.util.Scanner;
import java.io.Console;
 
class WeatherProgram{
 
	public static void main(String[]args){
 
		double fahrenheit;
		double celsius;
		int reply;
		String reply2 = "y";
		Console c = System.console();
		Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
 
		while(reply2.equals("y")){
			System.out.println("Welcome to Weather Conversion. Please choose one of the following numbers: "+"\n");
			System.out.println("1. Fahrenheit to Celsius");
			System.out.println("2. Celsius to Fahrenheit");
			System.out.println("3. Windchill");
			System.out.println("4. Quit");
			System.out.println(" ");
			reply = scan.nextInt();
 
			if (reply == 1){
				System.out.println("Please input fahrenheit temperature: ");
				fahrenheit = scan.nextDouble();
				fToC(fahrenheit);
			}
 
			if (reply == 2){
				System.out.println("Please input celsius temperature: ");
				celsius = scan.nextDouble();
				cToF(celsius);
			}
			reply2 = c.readLine("Do you wish to continue Weather Conversion, (y/n)?: ");
		}
		System.out.println("Thank you");
	}
 
	public static void fToC(double f){
		double celsius;
		celsius = ((f-32)*5/9);
 
		if (celsius<1){
			System.out.println(f + " Fahrenheit = " + celsius + " Celsius. Temperature is below freezing!");
		}
		if (celsius>32){
			System.out.println(f + " Fahrenheit = " + celsius + " Celsius. It is hot!");
		}
		else{
			System.out.println(f + " Fahrenheit = " + celsius + " Celsius.");
		}
	}
 
	public static void cToF(double c){
		double fahrenheit;
		fahrenheit = ((c*9/5)+32);
 
		if (fahrenheit<33){
			System.out.println(c + " Celsius = " + fahrenheit + " Fahrenheit. Temperature is below freezing!");
		}
		if (fahrenheit>90){
			System.out.println(c + " Celsius = " + fahrenheit + " Fahrenheit. It is hot!");
		}
		else{
			System.out.println(c + " Celsius = " + fahrenheit + " Fahrenheit.");
		}
	}
}

You are declaring your variables more than once, but I am not sure why you're doing so.
instead of declaring them inside of main, or inside of any other method, declare them in your class before main.

import java.util.Scanner;
import java.io.Console;
 
class WeatherProgram{
 
		private double fahrenheit;
		private double celsius;
		private double temperature;
		private double windSpeed;
		private double chill;
		private int reply;
		private String reply2 = "y";
 
	public static void main(String[]args){
 
		Console c = System.console();
		Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
 
		while(reply2.equals("y")){
			System.out.println("Welcome to Weather Conversion. Please choose one of the following numbers: "+"\n");
			System.out.println("1. Fahrenheit to Celsius");
			System.out.println("2. Celsius to Fahrenheit");
			System.out.println("3. Windchill");
			System.out.println("4. Quit");
			System.out.println(" ");
			reply = scan.nextInt();
 
			if (reply == 1){
				System.out.println("Please input fahrenheit temperature: ");
				fahrenheit = scan.nextDouble();
				fToC(fahrenheit);
			}
 
			if (reply == 2){
				System.out.println("Please input celsius temperature: ");
				celsius = scan.nextDouble();
				cToF(celsius);
			}
 
			if (reply == 3){
				System.out.println("Please input the temperature in degrees fahrenheit: ");
				temperature = scan.nextDouble();
				System.out.println("Please input wind speed in MPH: ");
				windSpeed = scan.nextDouble();
				wcCalc(chill);
			}
			reply2 = c.readLine("Do you wish to continue Weather Conversion, (y/n)?: ");
		}
		System.out.println("Thank you");
	}
 
	public static void fToC(double f){
		// removed the double celcius, as it's already declared in class
		celsius = ((f-32)*5/9); // check your "5/9" as that's not going to give you a double answer
 
		if (celsius<1){
			System.out.println(f + " Fahrenheit = " + celsius + " Celsius. Temperature is below freezing!");
		}
		if (celsius>32){
			System.out.println(f + " Fahrenheit = " + celsius + " Celsius. It is hot!");
		}
		else{
			System.out.println(f + " Fahrenheit = " + celsius + " Celsius.");
		}
	}
 
	public static void cToF(double c){
		//removed double fahrenheit
		fahrenheit = ((c*9/5)+32);  // check 9/5 math, fix for double
 
		if (fahrenheit<33){
			System.out.println(c + " Celsius = " + fahrenheit + " Fahrenheit. Temperature is below freezing!");
		}
		if (fahrenheit>90){
			System.out.println(c + " Celsius = " + fahrenheit + " Fahrenheit. It is hot!");
		}
		else{
			System.out.println(c + " Celsius = " + fahrenheit + " Fahrenheit.");
		}
	}
 
	public static void wcCalc(double wc){
 //removed all restatements of variables
		chill = (35.74 + 0.6215 * temperature + (0.4275 * temperature - 35.75) * Math.pow(windSpeed,0.16));
 
		if (chill<-30){
			System.out.println("Windchill = " + wc + " Degrees Fahrenheit. Dangerous Windchill!");
		}
		else{
			System.out.println("Windchill = " + wc + " Degrees Fahrenheit");
		}
	}
}

What Herah wrote will make your code work fine.. declare all the variables in class before any method rather than declare inside each method, by doing that if you call the variable outside of that particular method, compiler will complain because the variable only exist inside that particular method, outside of that method that variable does not exist, so the compiler is complaining about it, follow Herah's advise and that should make it work fine.. Hope this helps!

Thank you for the tips, I am going to retry it tonight after stuffing turkey down my gullet all day. Happy Thanksgiving!!

I've tried for hours to solve the (yes/no) input problem, even though it's way above my level for now, still i learned lots of interesting stuff along the way that halped me to solve some of my own problems , but i found something that i think might help:

private boolean readYes (String prompt) {
	string input = ""; //variable declaration: instead of input, you have reply2
	while (!(input.equals("yes") || input.equals("no"))) {
		System.out.print(prompt);
		System.out.flush();
		input = in.next();
		input = input.toLowerCase();
		in.nextLine;
	}
	return input.equals("yes");
}

hope this helps.