Thread: Need help ASAP (Submission is in two hours) :(

/*
2. A run is a sequence of adjacent repeated values.
write a program that generates a sequence of 20 random die tosses
(between 1 and 6) in an array and prints the die values, marking
the runs by including them in parentheses, like this
1 2 (5 5) 3 1 2 4 3 (2 2 2 2) 3 6 (5 5) 6 3 1
Use the following pseudocode algorithm:
set a boolean variable inRun to false
For each valid index i in the array
ifinRun
if value[i] is different from the preceding value
print )
inRun=false
if not inRun
if value[i] is the same as the following value
print (
inRun=true
print value[i]
ifinRun
print )
*/

import java.util.*;
public class dieToss
{
 public static void main(String[] args)
 {
  Random rand=new Random(System.in);
  int[] value=new int[20];
  for(int i=0; i<dieToss.length; i++)
   {
     value[i]=rand.nextInt(6)+1;
     boolean inRun=false;
 
 if (inRun)
    {
    if (value[i]!=value[i-1])
	{
   System.out.println(" )");
   }
   } 
   if(value!=inRun)
 {  
   if(value[i]==value[i+1])
   {
   System.out.println(" (");
   }
 }  
     inRun=true;
     {
   System.out.println(value[i]);
   }
 if (inRun)
   {
    System.out.println(" )");
   }  
  }
 }
}

I am getting This error
dieToss.java:6: error: incompatible types: InputStream cannot be converted to long
Random rand=new Random(System.in);
^
dieToss.java:8: error: cannot find symbol
for(int i=0; i<dieToss.length; i++)
^
symbol: variable length
location: class dieToss
dieToss.java:20: error: incomparable types: int[] and boolean
if(value!=inRun)
^
Note: Some messages have been simplified; recompile with -Xdiags:verbose to get full output
3 errors

Please edit your post and wrap your code with code tags:
[code=java]
YOUR CODE GOES HERE
[/code]
to get highlighting and preserve formatting.

Which of the error messages are you having problems understanding?

InputStream cannot be converted to long

Read the API doc for the Random class's constructor to see what kind of arg it takes.

cannot find symbol
for(int i=0; i<dieToss.length; i++)
^
symbol: variable length

The compiler can not find a definition for the variable: length
Where is it supposed to be defined?

incomparable types: int[] and boolean

The data types must be comparable. an int array can not be compared to a boolean variable

The code has no comments so I don't know what each of those statements is supposed to do.

--- Update ---

The formatting of the posted code needs work.
Nested statements should be indented.
The ending } should be in the same column as the statement with the matching {.

The messy code is hard to read because of the poor formatting.