Hey, I tried to make an if statement just to practice (I know I’m a noob) and the else statement keeps bugging out, Help!
public class integer {
public static void main(String[] args) {
int boy, girl;
boy = 18;
girl = 68;
if(boy > 10); {
System.out.println("You can enter");
}else{
System.out.println("You are too young");
}
}
}
Sorry for wasting your time, I added an extra ; It’s fixed now ^^
First, change that class name to something else, like : Age
When you change it, be sure to change the file name to that as well, unless you using eclipse or netbeans… you can rename/refactor.
Second, class names starts with UpperCase, as far as im concerned, not 100% sure.
Third, the if is missing the girl variable.
Try this :
if(boy > 10)
{
System.out.println(“Boy Can Enter”);
}else
{
System.out.println(“boy cant enter”);
}
if(girl > 10 )
{
System.out.println(“Girl Can Enter”);
}else
{
System.out.println(“Girl cant enter”);
}
You might like to try these tutorials:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/
They cover the language essentials.
Also try using a proper IDE like Eclipse or IntelliJ. You have to learn how to use the IDE, so there is some effort there, but it will catch simple mistakes for you like missing semicolons and so on. Most programmers rely on an IDE because they really increase your productivity.
If you use IntelliJ, it will give you advice about your code, like “Your class name needs an uppercase letter” or “you can remove the if statement because it is always true”. Eclipse does something similar.
Yes, use an IDE, and learn basic java before attempting to learn game programming - when you do pick up game programming, it’ll be that much easier.
www.eclipse.org/
or
netbeans.org/
Oh i didn’t realize that was u aden!
Oh wow… that’s definitely not the right indentation 
public class integer {
public static void main(String[] args) {
int boy = 18;
int girl = 68;
if(boy > 10) {
System.out.println("You can enter");
}else{
System.out.println("You are too young");
}
}
}
AND INTEGER SHOULD HAVE THE I CAPITALIZED
code convention n4zi
The fun thing is: The newbe will ask you: Now why should I do that?
Coding conventions are there to make reading code easier. But yet he hasn’t read code himself a lot, so he didn’t find out the problems with not following coding conventions. All coding conventions are there to solve a problem. Let him find out himself. Imagine you’re him, you don’t know why to capitalize some words and others not. Why shouldn’t he introduce all variables at the top and assign values to them later (I changed it when I posted the indented code)?
The answer 'bout the Classes: It makes you see the difference between a method and a class. You know which one you’ll be able to call and which one to store or which one to allocate or whatever on the first glance, if your eyes started to recognize such a pattern.
The answer 'bout introducing the variables: Even simpler. You might forget to initialize a variable to ‘18’ or ‘68’. Also you need to write less code…
Btw, he can’t call his class [icode]Integer[/icode] because there is already java.lang.Integer, too, I guess 
In This Thread: terrible advice
You have a semicolon after the if statement. That is why the else statement is giving you an error, because it can’t find the if statement due to that code block in the middle of two. Remove the semicolon and everything works.
DO NOT use an IDE when you are just a beginner with programming. LEARN how to code in Notepad (with proper formatting and code conventions) and compile on the command line.
To add ra4king’s advices, because he’s nothing without me around:
Yup, I see the advice about ‘don’t use an IDE as a beginner’ all over the place - I just don’t happen to agree with it. Notepad will give you zero advice about coding conventions. The compiler will be equally unhelpful.
There’s nothing clever about programming in a deliberately obtuse way.
I quite an experienced programmer, but I learn things from IntelliJ every day.
Would you learn to spell better if you switched of your word processor’s spell checker, and instead got a list of line numbers containing spelling errors every time you saved? That’s just masochism.
IDEs are there to help you. I make dumb mistakes like forgetting semicolons all the time - being a Certified Java Programmer is no insurance! If I didn’t have an IDE to catch the confetti of idiocy I am always sprinkling over my code, I wouldn’t get very far at work or at home.
Well if you’re Java Certified I believe your need on IDE is triggered by work, you just need to get things done and fast. But for someone who is still on baby step, understanding exceptions through that black command line window is important so no more NullException asking threads get posted anymore.
I actually started out with an IDE and now I’m switching towards just using Notepad++ (on Windows) and Sublime Text 2 (on Linux) and compiling with an automatic builder that my friend and I are making. I seem to be doing the complete opposite thing that most people do. This is probably a horrible reason, but the main reason why I am doing so is because I want people to be able to clone my GitHub repositories and then easily compile them. When I use Eclipse, they have to open Eclipse to do so, and opening Eclipse sadly takes quite a bit of time. However, it seems kind of counter-intuitive to force them to install and auto-builder program to compile my programs too.
Auto-builder program? I think you might want to use Ant 
I kind of agree, but I kind of feel like it’s a bit too much writing. It’s more convenient to just write down the libraries necessary and a minimal amount of rules (probably zero for Java, based on what I think will happen) and be done.
For example, a simple ant buildfile looks like this according to Apache Ant’s official tutorials:
<project name="MyProject" default="dist" basedir=".">
<description>
simple example build file
</description>
<!-- set global properties for this build -->
<property name="src" location="src"/>
<property name="build" location="build"/>
<property name="dist" location="dist"/>
<target name="init">
<!-- Create the time stamp -->
<tstamp/>
<!-- Create the build directory structure used by compile -->
<mkdir dir="${build}"/>
</target>
<target name="compile" depends="init"
description="compile the source " >
<!-- Compile the java code from ${src} into ${build} -->
<javac srcdir="${src}" destdir="${build}"/>
</target>
<target name="dist" depends="compile"
description="generate the distribution" >
<!-- Create the distribution directory -->
<mkdir dir="${dist}/lib"/>
<!-- Put everything in ${build} into the MyProject-${DSTAMP}.jar file -->
<jar jarfile="${dist}/lib/MyProject-${DSTAMP}.jar" basedir="${build}"/>
</target>
<target name="clean"
description="clean up" >
<!-- Delete the ${build} and ${dist} directory trees -->
<delete dir="${build}"/>
<delete dir="${dist}"/>
</target>
</project>
whereas with the program my friend and I are making, an example setup for C (he hates Java and loves C and C++ so the Java compatibility will be purely done by me) would look like this:
This is basically the setup the setup for a project my friend made with it.
.buildifile:
-llua
to build:
buildify
Which I find more convenient. In the future the .buildifile will likely have LIBS=-llua instead of just -llua to better comply with the new rules that will later be added. You can see our program here.
All you’ve done is move the complexity into your build tool. Now to change the build process, I will have to change your build tool.
Ant is a bit verbose I agree, but it is feature-rich and will be able to do anything you want it to. Also, any Java developer will immediately understand your Ant build script, or will at least have recourse to the excellent Ant documentation. None of this is true for your build tool.
Plus… you can run the Ant script from any IDE, or on an automated build server like Team City (I love Team City).
I am using eclipse, Just not used to the interface yet, Thanks anyway.