Algorithm problem

[Marcus]

This code is supposed to allow the user to enter a 5 student IDs and their results and calculate the total and show the grades all the information should be shown in a table. For some reason the first studentID is indented - does anyone know why?

Code:

import java.util.*;
 public class Assignment
 {
 	public static void main(String[] args)
 	{
 	//Declares variables and arrays
 	int i = 0;
 	int j = 0;
 	String [] studentIDArray = new String [5];
 	int [][] studentArray = new int [5][9];
 	Scanner kybd = new Scanner(System.in);
 
 	//Welcome message to user
 	System.out.println("Welcome");
 	System.out.println("~~~~~~~");
 	System.out.println("Please note any unanswered questions should marked as -1");
 	System.out.print ("\n");
 
 	//User is prompted to enter student ID and the results
 	for (i = 0; i < 5; ++i)
 		{
 		System.out.print("Please Enter the Student ID: ");
 		studentIDArray[i] = kybd.next();
 		for (j = 0; j < 8; ++j)
 			{
 			System.out.println("Please Enter the Result for Question " + (j+1));
 			studentArray[i][j] = kybd.nextInt();
 			}
 		}
 
 	//Calculates the students total
 	while (j < 8)
 		{
 		j = 0;
 		while (i < 5)
 			{
 			studentArray[i][9] += studentArray[i][j];
 			j+=1;
 			}
 		i+=1;
 		}
 
 	int k = 0;
 	String grade = "";
 	String [] gradeArray = new String [5];	//Declares new array to store grades
 
 	//Calculates the grades for each student
 	while (i < 5)
 		{
 		studentArray[i][8] += 3;
 		if (studentArray[i][8] > 70)
 			{
 			gradeArray[k] = "Distinction";
 			}
 	      		else if (studentArray[i][8] > 60)
 			{
        			gradeArray[k] = "Merit";
     			}
       			else if (studentArray[i][8] > 40)
 			{
 			gradeArray[k] = "Pass";
 			}
 			else if (studentArray[i][8] >= 40)
 			{
 			gradeArray[k] = "Fail";
 			}
 		k+=1;
 		i+=1;
 		}
 
 	System.out.print ("\n");
 	System.out.println ("StudentID Q1   Q2     Q3     Q4     Q5     Q6     Q7     Q8     Total   Grade");
 	System.out.print ("  ");
 
 	i=0;
 	j=0;
 	k=0;
 
 	//Output students results 
 	while (i < 5)
 	{
 		j = 0;
 		System.out.printf(studentIDArray[i]);
 		while (j < 9)
 		{
 			System.out.printf ("%7d", studentArray[i][j]);
 			j+=1;
 		}
 
 		System.out.print("     " + gradeArray[k]);
 		System.out.print ("\n");
 		i+=1;
 		k+=1;
 	}
 }
 }

Marcus

[Felissa]

Well, one thing at a time:

Code:

System.out.println ("StudentID Q1   Q2     Q3     Q4     Q5     Q6     Q7     Q8     Total   Grade");
 System.out.print ("  ");

Why are you printing two spaces - without a newline after the header? It will simply add these two spaces to the next line - like it does.

As far as the other issues - I'd strongly encourage you to add some System.out.prinln() statements here and there to understand what is going on.

Felissa

[Eric]

Can I make a suggestion? - print out the value of "i" and "j" before you enter the while loops. It looks like you're incrementing but never resetting them.

Eric