Thread: Beginner Problem: Choosing highest value from 3 inputs

Hello anyone,

I am currently in need of some help with the code for one of my methods.
I have 3 inputs for 3 separate quiz scores. My method must choose the highest from these 3 no matter what the input for them was.

The program as a whole is compiling and running but seems to choose one of the 3 inputs at random to pick as the highest.
the code currently looks like this:

// Beginning of method
public void highestquiz () {

if (quizScore1 > quizScore2) {
highestScore = quizScore1;
}
else if (quizScore1 > quizScore3){
highestScore = quizScore1;
}

if (quizScore2 > quizScore1) {
highestScore = quizScore2;
}
else if (quizScore2 > quizScore3){
highestScore = quizScore2;
}
if (quizScore3 > quizScore1) {
highestScore = quizScore3;
}
else if (quizScore3 > quizScore2) {
highestScore = quizScore3;
}

} //end highestscore


I realize that this is probably a very tedious and inefficient way to perform this.
Thank you for any help with my code!

The output chooses 50 as the highest score.

I tried changing the order between all 3 and seems to have no pattern for choosing one of the values. It seems to choose the highest input between the 2nd and 3rd input leaving out the first.

I think the && operator is exactly what I was looking for, Thank you so much! The program is now compiling and running correctly!