Thread: A little assignment involving arrays.

That syntax is incorrect. Recommended reading: Arrays (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Language Basics)

The Exception is pretty self-explanatory. Your array has 1200 elements, so 1199 is the last index. You're trying to access index 1560, which is way off. Why are you holding such a small number of items in such a large array like that?

First off, you only have to store 400 numbers. So your array should have 400 indexes. And you don't want to store the values to the array in indexes equal to the value, you store them sequentially (first value at index 0, second value at index 1, etc.).

I don't understand the question. You already have a loop that goes from 1 to 400 in your original post. It shouldn't be too hard to loop from 0 to 399.

I meant to make each element of the sum array equal to the first 400 multiples of 13.

Instead of doing it line by line like this.

sum[0] = 13;
sum[1] = 26;
sum[2] = 39;
sum[3] = 52;
// and so on

I understand that part, I just don't understand why you were asking about making a loop when you already have almost exactly what you needed in your original post.

Think about the relationship between the index and the value you want to store at that position.

Once again, I'm forced to tell you that spoonfeeding is NOT helping. You have robbed yet another OP of the process of figuring out the problem, which is extremely important for a programmer to learn, and then having that "ah-ha!" moment, which programmers love.

Is there any reason for Net beans to run a file and display the output with no problems? And display an error message the second time the file was run even though there were no changes made to the file...

Originally Posted by Melawe

Is there any reason for Net beans to run a file and display the output with no problems? And display an error message the second time the file was run even though there were no changes made to the file...

What is the error?

Updated code:

class ThirteenArray {
    public static void main(String[] args){
        //Hour 9, Second activity.
        int multiply = 13;
        int[] sum = new int[400];
       for(int thirteen = 1; thirteen <= 400; thirteen++){
           //multiply = multiply * thirteen;
            sum[thirteen] = 13 * (thirteen + 1);
            System.out.print(" " + sum[thirteen]);
        }
    }
}

Output:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 400
26 39 52 65 78 91 104 117 130 143 156 169 182 195 208.... 5122 5135 5148 5161 5174 5187 5200 at ThirteenArray.main(ThirteenArray.java:8)
Java Result: 1
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 2 seconds)

Line 8:

sum[thirteen] = 13 * (thirteen + 1);

You never increment the variable in your loop. I'm actually a little surprised that compiles.

But even when you fix that, you're still accessing the indexes wrongly- remember, the indexes go from 0-399, which gives you 400 indexes. Array indexes don't start at 1, and they don't go all the way to the size of the array.

Excuse that, removed it to try something and forgot to add it later on, I updated the post please take a look at it again.

Oh and I change the for loop to the way JavaPenguin said to do it, what's wrong with the loop?

So, what does your program do now? You need to provide more information if you want any help. I explained how you're going out of the bounds of the array. What about that don't you understand?

Originally Posted by Melawe

hmmm, so I have to set the highest element to 401?

No. Like I told you, like javapenguin spoonfed you, and like it undoubtedly says on every array tutorial out there- indexes start at zero, not one. So you start at zero and go up to the number of indexes minus one. What you have now does not print out 400 numbers.

Originally Posted by Melawe

Is that comment for the updated code too?

Yes. If you don't believe me, try figuring out what's in the first index (which is index zero). Or try printing out the number of elements in the array. Hint- increment a variable each time you add something to the array, then print it out after your loop completes.