Thread: My program will not run properly!

it doesnt read the correct values

Yes that is what debugging is about. Finding out why the program produces incorrect values.
Then when the incorrect values are found, the program needs to be changed to produce correct values.

Good luck.

I'm trying to show you how to debug your code and find the problems in it. By printing out the values and finding an unexpected value (I assume 0 is unexpected) you need to look at the code to see why its initial value was 0. I assume you expected an initial value of 64. Why didn't you ask where the 0 came from?

The next observation you should make when looking at the printed out values was where did the value of 52 come from? The initial value of 0 minus 12 is -12 not 52.
So where did 52 come from? I was waiting to point that out, but you never got past saying the output for the second trial was wrong. You need to look at all the values and think about if they are reasonable.

Your expectations must have been that I would fix the code. I do not fix a student's code. I try to give debugging techniques. All programmers must know how to debug their code.

you don't want to help.

That is a hard statement. How many responses did I give on this thread? How quickly did I respond?

What kind of responses were you looking for?

its stuck in a loop

What condition will stop the looping?
Does any of the code inside of the loop change the value of any variables used in that condition?

Here is the condition that controls the looping:
(waterAdd <= 12)
as long as waterAdd is <= 12 the loop will continue.
Change waterAdd to a value > 12 and the loop will exit.

What is the purpose of the loop? All it does is compute a value for tempWater and print a message. It does not change anything.

I know what to do

Please explain in simple steps in a list describing what you want to do.

For example the steps to get 2 numbers from a user and sum them
zero out sum field
ask for first number
read number
add number to sum
ask for next number
read next number
add number to sum

What is 3. supposed to do when value <= 12. I do not see any actions to take.

In 5. what does 'tempWater' to be called again mean? If tempWater is a variable it can not be called. Its value can be changed.

number is taken away from jugOunces which equals 64

So is the number always subtracted from 64?
That sounds like what you were complaining about earlier:
user enters 12 results is 52
user enters 10 results is 54
The result is ALWAYS 64 minus what the user entered.

Don't you want to save that results and subtract the new user input from that saved value, not from 64?
Some thing like this:
user enters 12 results is 52
user enters 10 results is 42 (52 minus 10 NOT 64 minus 10)

Here is an example of how to subtract or add and remember the new value:

x  = 10      // set initial value to 10
x = x - 3   // x is now 7   (10 - 3)
x = x - 2    // x is now 5    (7 - 2)
x = x + 4   //  x is now 9   (5 + 4)

This is what i attempted to do for tempWater

Please post the complete code that shows what you have attempted.

Is tempWater the variable that is be decremented by the amounts from the user?

I did not see any statements in your code that looked like the following:
tempWater = tempWater - amount; // decrement tempWater by amount

Is that print out what you expected? You didn't add any comments about it.

Defining tempWater as a local variable (inside of the if statement) means that its value is LOST as soon as execution leaves the if statement.

so that the value is remembered for next time

Define the variable at the class level, not local.

public class TheClass {
    // here is class level
   int varname;   // define a variable at the class level