Help with dice game...student seeking advice

[waparson]

Hi, im new here. taking a beginner class in java. this second program is giving me a time...

the rules of the program are in the text attachment. Im having trouble figuring out what i need in a loop. and if i need nested loops.

Also can i nest a for loop inside a do while loop.

This one is giving me a hard time guys, please help....

also yes this is a homework problem, not trying to get someone to give me the answer or do it for me, just need some direction on this one....

thanks,
Allan

[Norm]

Yes you can nest one type of loop within another.
Give the program a start. If you don't know what to code at a particular point, write some comments on what you'd like to do there. For example:
// Here I roll a die and get a random value from 1 to 6.
or
// Get the number of games to be played

Layout the structure of the game, post it with your questions and someone will help.

[waparson]

while (userGuess != sum)
{
for (countRolls = 1; countRolls <=3; countRolls++)
{
//create a Random class object.
Random randomNumbers = new Random();

//Get two random numbers.
dice1 = randomNumbers.nextInt(6);
dice2 = randomNumbers.nextInt(6);

//Sum the two die numbers
sum = (dice1 + dice2)

//output the number of each die with asteriks
System.out.println("Die 1 Die 2");
System.out.println("-----------------");


ok, i believe i have the most of it. One thing thats getting me is how to output a picture of the asteriks for whatever random number is generated for each die. I know im gonna have to do an if/else statement for this..


any help on how to do this would greatly be appreciated....

[Norm]

picture of the asteriks

You could use substring for this.
String asters = "*****************";
String twoAster = asters.substring(0,2);

You'll want to create the Random object outside of the method. Otherwise you'll always get the same numbers, unless you seed it from the CPU clock, for example.