Thread: Struggling with Java counter

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Well from what you have given the problem is still a little unclear, but looking at your computeResult method I can see a few things that might be throwing it off

Your for loop is told to loop while l is greater than or equal to 5, which will never happen since you initialize it to 0

Also, you are using results => 34, which is not valid java code. results is an array of integers and as such does not directly evaluate to an integer. The => symbol is also incorrect.
This same issue is found when comparing results == "Compensation fail".

On a side note, when comparing to a string, you must use the .equals() method rather than the primitive ==

So basically i'm screwed : ( . Can't believe i've been doing this thing since 11am and it's now 3.30am =/

No, that's not what I was saying at all.

If you have any other more specific questions feel free to ask

atm i've got and thanks, appreciated.

public static void computeResult(String results, int[] examMarks, int[] cwMarks) {
 
		int count = 0;
		int count2 = 0;
		int count3 = 0;
 
		for (int l = 0; l >= 5; l++)
 
		{
 
			if (cwMarks[l] < 35 || examMarks[l] < 35){
				count = count + 1;
				results= "You Failed!";
			}
			else if (cwMarks[l] < 35 || examMarks[l] < 35){
					count2 = count2 + 1;
					results="You passed by compensation!";
			}
				else if
					(cwMarks[l] < 35 || examMarks[l] <35){
				   count3 = count3 + 1;
					results="You passed year 1!";
 
 
			}
		}

So is this solution working or are you still having issues?

i

--- Update ---

I'm still having issues. For this method my aim is :

"A method computeResult that, an array of student exam and coursework marks, returns a Stage Result for that student (again you may pass 2 arrays rather than one if you prefer). You may assume each module is weighted equally which is true for Stages 1 and 2 modules."

It basically ignores method 2 and just runs method 1. Technically it doesn't ignore it because if i put system.out.println("fwefewfewfewF"); in method 2 it'd show up. But i mean with the information i'm using atm it's just having no effect. I know the numbers aren't accurate atm for the if statement i've created but i just want to get it actually functioning for now. Sorry if my wording is terrible, i've been doing this for around 15-17 hours straight.. =/

Well as I mentioned in the first reply, your for statement never runs the way you have it setup.
The logic behind it is saying to loop while your counter variable l is greater than or equal to 5. Since you start this variable at 0, which is not greater than or equal to 5, it never runs.