Guess game compiling error

Hello folks, I'm reading the Java head first book and I getting a issue compiling a part of my code, this is the error I'm getting.

C:\Users\Omar\Desktop>javac GuessGame.java
GuessGame.java:19: ';' expected
int targetNumber = (int)Math.random() *10);
^
GuessGame.java:23: ')' expected
System.out.println("number to guess is" + targetNumber(); //prints
^
2 errors

this the whole GuessGame class code

public class GuessGame{
   Player p1;
   Player p2;                 //Guess game has three instance variables
   Player p3;                 //for the three player objects.

public void startGame(){
      p1 = new Player();      //create three player objects and assign them
      p2 = new Player();      //to the three player instance variables.
      p3 = new Player();

int guessp1 = 0;       //declare three variables to hold
      int guessp2 = 0;       //three guesses the Players make
      int guessp3 = 0;

boolean p1isRight = false;  //declare three variables to hold true
      boolean p2isRight = false;  //or false based on the player's answer
      boolean p3isRight = false;

int targetNumber = (int)Math.random() *10);
  System.out.println("Im thinking of a number between 0 and 9");

while(true){
   System.out.println("number to guess is" + targetNumber(); //prints
    p1.guess();
    p2.guess();            //call each player's guess() method
    p3.guess();

guessp1 = p1.number;  // get each player's guess the result of their
    System.out.println("Player one guessed" + guessp1);
                          // guess() method running, by accesing the number
    guessp2 = p2.number;
    System.out.println("player two guessed" + guessp1);
                          // number of variable of each player.
    guessp3 = p3.number;
    System.out.println("Player three guessed" + guessp3);

if (guessp1 == targetNumber) {
     p1isRight = true;    //checks each player'sguess to see if it matches
     }                    //the target number. If player is right, then set
                          //that player's variable to be true
    if (guessp2 == targetNumber) {
    p2isRight = true;    //(remember, we set it false by default).
    }

if (guessp3 == targetNumber) {
    p3isRight = true;
    }

if (p1isRight || p2isRight || p3isRight) {
     System.out.println("We have a winner");
     System.out.println("Player one got it right?" + p1isRight);
     System.out.println("Player two got it right?" + p2isRight);
     System.out.println("Player three got it right?" + p3isRight);
     System.out.println("Game's over charlie");
     break; // game over, so break out the loop
    } else {
      //we must keep going because notbody got it right!
       System.out.println("Players will have to try again.");
    } //end if/else
   } // end loop
  }// end mathod
 } //end class

Hi, you are missing a bracket on line 19, change it as follows:

What are you using to edit your files? Most code editors will do paren/bracket matching. If you look at your line 19:

There is an closing paren right before the semi-colon that doesn't have a matching open-paren. I'm not sure if you need the close-paren at all, but you do need to always have them in pairs.

fred rosenberger wrote:What are you using to edit your files? Most code editors will do paren/bracket matching. If you look at your line 19:

int targetNumber = (int)Math.random() *10);

There is an closing paren right before the semi-colon that doesn't have a matching open-paren. I'm not sure if you need the close-paren at all, but you do need to always have them in pairs.

Head First Java say to use notepad/Notepad++ because so the person can get use to catching those mistakes.

I use notepad++ Because it is almost like a ide only thing it don't have is Declares the errors and what you should use.

Notepad++ is a very good program, but it is far short of an IDE.

Justin van Wilgen wrote:Hi, you are missing a bracket on line 19, change it as follows:
int targetNumber = ((int)Math.random() *10);

Better make that (int)(Math.random() * 10). Your code first converts the result of Math.random() to an int. Since Math.random() always returns a double >= 0 and < 1, the cast will always result in 0. The total will therefore also be 0.
By multiplying first, then casting, you're casting something that's >= 0 and < 10 to an int. That can be any int from 0 to 9.