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Very beginner questions on loops

 
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Hopefully these haven't been answered before, but honestly I didn't even know what to search for. I am a beginner beginner beginner, and I can't stress that enough. I'm in my second week of an 8 month series with no prior programming knowledge whatsoever. The concepts have made complete sense thus far - it's just remembering the math needed and figuring out where to put it that's been most time consuming ( just turned 30, it's nowhere near fresh in my mind ).

That being said, I'm completely stuck like chuck on a few exercises, and need help. These aren't graded assignments or anything, just suggested activities. So I'm not necessarily just looking for the code so I can run along with it, but I AM a visual learner and usually learn best when I can see something paired with the problem to put two and two together.

Whew. Okay.

The first one I'm struggling with involves:

having the user enter 2 words,
print both words on one line,
separating the 2 words with enough dots between them so the total character length is 30.

I know I need to use a System.out.println(".") inside a loop body but I have no idea how, and the related chapter does nothing to explain this.



The second exercise involves:

having the user input an integer,
we then ask the user for THAT amount of integers and then find the sum, i.e.

How many integers will be added?
5
Enter an integer:
1
Enter an integer:
2
Enter an integer:
3
etc, etc.

Once again, the related chapter has no examples of how to perform this aside from use a counting loop.

I was going to ask about 1 more exercise, but this is a lot for one post, so I may wait until I can grasp the ideas and concepts behind these two.

Thanks in advance for any help at all! I need every bit I can get, for fear of falling behind so early in this series of classes is getting to me.
 
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Like this?

and this?
 
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Louis Denning wrote:Like this?

and this?



First, thanks so much for responding! So I'm not even going to venture into the second block you wrote before I can grasp the first. You threw me for a loop (no pun intended) with the "getUserInputSomehow" hah. That's how green I am, I thought you were naming something that. Then I see the stringOne and stringTwo and realize THOSE were the string names and I needed to use method scan.next() to retrieve the user input (not like you put a comment line saying exactly that or anything :P ). Putting "b" for the last print line instead of stringTwo almost got me, that was the first thing I caught

Thank you again so so much. I'm going to digest this and move to the next one. Hopefully if there's anything I need to fix/change I'll be able to figure it out and not get frustrated. glad I didn't get flamed for silly questions, very much appreciated
 
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Louis Denning wrote:Like this? . . .

No, no, no, no, no. Don't post full solutions. You would help much more by providing hints, and by seeing what is wrong with the OP's current code.
 
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Welcome to the Ranch David Borchgrevink
 
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Campbell Ritchie wrote:

Louis Denning wrote:Like this? . . .

No, no, no, no, no. Don't post full solutions. You would help much more by providing hints, and by seeing what is wrong with the OP's current code.



Sorry to cause a stir. I guess I did kind of ask for what it should look like. Hints probably would have pushed me in the right direction too though. Either way, thanks for the welcome!
 
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David Borchgrevink wrote:First, thanks so much for responding! So I'm not even going to venture into the second block you wrote before I can grasp the first. You threw me for a loop (no pun intended) with the "getUserInputSomehow" hah. That's how green I am, I thought you were naming something that. Then I see the stringOne and stringTwo and realize THOSE were the string names and I needed to use method scan.next() to retrieve the user input (not like you put a comment line saying exactly that or anything :P ). Putting "b" for the last print line instead of stringTwo almost got me, that was the first thing I caught

Thank you again so so much. I'm going to digest this and move to the next one. Hopefully if there's anything I need to fix/change I'll be able to figure it out and not get frustrated. glad I didn't get flamed for silly questions, very much appreciated


Yeah, I thought that I should have changed the variable names to something more clear, but forgot to change some of them. Sorry~

Campbell Ritchie wrote:No, no, no, no, no. Don't post full solutions. You would help much more by providing hints, and by seeing what is wrong with the OP's current code.


I'm sorry D:
I thought it would be a good idea to explain each line...
...but I get what you mean and why.
 
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Apologies accepted. and sorry myself because I overreacted a bit with the no, no, no.
 
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