Thread: Judging

Help please! I've been trying to make this work for a while. The problem is such:

Write a program that allows the user to enter eight judges' scores and then outputs the points received by the contestant. Format your output with two decimal places. A judge awards points between 1 and 10, with 1 being the lowest and 10 being the highest. For example, if the scores are 9.2, 9.3, 9.0, 9.9, 9.5, 9.5, 9.6, and 9.8, the contestant receives a total of 56.90.

I believe that I have nearly completed everything correctly. What I can't figure out is how to calculate the sum of the remaining 6 numbers of the Array which is assigned the variable total in the calculateScore method and retrieve the variable. My last print statement is supposed to read ("The score of "+contestant+" is "+total+":"). Not sure how to correctly call the method calculateScore or where to put the print message without receiving the error:cannot find symbol - variable contestant

import java.util.Scanner;
import javax.swing.*;
public class Judging
{
    public static void main(String[]args)//void, returns nothing
    {
        Scanner console = new Scanner (System.in);
        String contestant;
        double []scores = new double[8];
        int n = 8;
 
        do
        {
            System.out.println("What is the name of the contestant? ");
            contestant= console.nextLine();
 
            getData(scores,n,console);
 
 
        }
        while(true);
 
    }    
    private static void getData(double []scores, int n, Scanner console)
    {   
 
        double judge;
        for(int i=0;i<n;i++)
        {
            do
            {
                System.out.print("Give the score for the judge number "+(i+1)+": ");
                judge = console.nextDouble();
 
 
 
 
            if (judge < 1 || judge > 10)
                System.out.println("Sorry!  The score must be between 1 and 10");
 
            else
               scores[i] = judge;
            }
            while (judge < 1 || judge > 10);
            }
                console.nextLine();
 
 
 
     }
 
    private static double calculateScore(double []scores, int n)
    {
            double minValue = scores[0];
            double maxValue = scores[0];
            double total = 0.00;
 
 
            if (scores[n] < minValue) 
            {
                minValue = scores[n];
            }
            if (scores[n] > maxValue) 
            {
                maxValue = scores[n];
            }
 
 
 
        for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++) 
        {
            if (scores[n] != minValue && scores[n] != maxValue) 
            {
                total = total + scores[n];
 
                //System.out.println("The score of "+contestant+"is "+total+":");?????
            }
        }
 
        return total;
 
 
    }
 
}

Originally Posted by gradstudent

I figured this out. Thanks.

Good work