Thread: Some Quick Help PLZ

() Typing words like "Quick" or "Urgent" does not make me decide to check the forum any sooner, wastes readers' time, and causes people to not read your post. So probably not a good title to get help with a problem.

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I'm new to this and trying to teach myself

:-) That is the fun way

()Please put [code=java] before your code and [/code] after your code to make it all colorful for old eyes to read it.

()Your questions suggest you skipped the first steps of problem solving. I like to get a clear understanding of the problem I am to solve in code. Then come up with a way to solve that problem.
In your case you want to get a number from the user until the guess is correct. That would make one big loop. Inside that loop you have other tasks to do. The things you want to see only when the user makes a guess will be inside that loop.
The important thing to see here is how your solution-on-paper will later translate into code that produces a loop to do some tasks, but not others. Then you will already know where to place things in your code before you write the code.
Best advice I can think of, get a well organized plan before writing any code.

Ok, so i did a little flowchart this morning and figured out my problem for Guess a number and enter a number. I'm suck on the out of range for numbers. I'm going to do some reading but if you can point me in the right direction that would be great. Also, sorry about the thread title it was late and i was getting a little frustrated with myself.

 
 
 
import java.util.Scanner;
 
 public class randomNumber {
 
      public static void main(String[] args) {
 
            int randomNumber;
 
            int guessCount;
 
            int tooHigh;
 
            randomNumber = (int)(100 * Math.random()) + 1;   
            guessCount = 0;
            tooHigh = 101;
 
            Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
 
            int guess;
 
            System.out.println("Guess a number between 1 and 100");
            System.out.println("Enter your guess");
 
            do {
 
 
 
                  guess = keyboard.nextInt();
                  guessCount++;
 
 
                  if (guess == randomNumber) {
                    System.out
 
                            .println("Congratulations your guess was correct!" + 
                            " It took " + guessCount + " guesses.");
                }
 
                  else if (guess < randomNumber) {
                    System.out
 
                               .println("Too low, try again .");
                }
 
                  else if (guess > randomNumber) {
                    System.out
 
                               .println("Too high, guess again.");
                }
 
                  if (guess >= tooHigh) {
                      System.out
 
                             .println("Number out of range, try again."); 
                  }
 
 
 
            } while (guess != randomNumber);
 
 
                      }
             }

I would suggest changing your if statements. I think you should read up on if and else if statements to understand why it's doing this. Here's a quick tutorial for if statements.

The if-then and if-then-else Statements (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Language Basics)

What is the statement doing? If this condition is true, do this.. else if, do this.

*hint* What do if statements do after they end?

Originally Posted by tmayo47

Ok, so i did a little flowchart this morning ... I'm suck on the out of range for numbers...

What did your flow chart say about when to check if the value is in range? That place should correspond to a place in the code.

Something to think about, a relationship among the numbers...

As a rule: tooLow < randomNumber < tooHigh ...or randomNumber is not in range, right?

Consider: tooLow < lowGuess <= randomNumber <= highGuess < tooHigh

Thanks for the video that helped. Also i figured it out thank you for help. Now time to try write another one with arrays.