Car cricket program

[Fisty]

New question when writing a program for say car cricket how would i show that
9 ot of 10 vehicles should be a car?

[Norm]

Please start a new thread for a new topic.

[DarrylBurke]

Agreed. Thread split from javac is not recognized as an internal or external command error

In future, whenever you have a question start your own thread -- they're free. Don't wake the dead, as you did this time, and don't attempt to hijack another poster's thread with your question.

db

[Fisty]

okay my bad.
Well can anyone answer my question now?

If you are writing a program, such as a roll of the die how do you make it so that a number comes up a certain percent of the time compared to another?
for example a 4 comes up 33% of the time, how would you write it in code?

[Norm]

Do you have the algorithm for that? Given an algorithm we could help you write the code in java.

[Fisty]

/*
@author = Joshua Fist
@version 1 (March 2012)
Assignment 1 for KXT101 (car cricket)
*/

import java.util.Scanner.*;
import java.util.Random.;

public class AssigOne112
{
public static void main (String[] args)
{
Scanner sc = new Scanner (System.in);
Random generator = new Random();
final int black = 0;
final int blue = 1;
final int cyan = 2;
final int dark grey = 3;
final int grey = 4;
final int green = 5;
final int light grey = 6;
final int magenta = 7;
final int orange = 8;
final int pink = 9;
final int red = 10;
final int white = 11;
final int yellow =12;
String name1, name2;
boolean first;
int innings = 0;

System.out.println("Enter a player's name"); //declaration
name1 = newString();
System.out.println("Enter a 2nd player's name"); //declaration
name2 = new String();
System.out.println("Will " + name1 + " be batting first?");
first = new boolean();
System.out.println("How many innings will be played?");


}
}

This is my program so far:

I need to create two objects "car" and "van/truck/bus/SUV"
then I need to make it so the chance an oncoming vehicle is a car is 9 out of 10.

How would I write this in my program?

[Norm]

the chance an oncoming vehicle is a car is 9 out of 10.

One simple way would be to use the Random class to generate a number from 1-10 and test if it is <= 9

[Fisty]

how would i use the random class?
could you use an example?

[DarrylBurke]

You would start by reading the API for java.util.Random.

Also read through the FAQs section of this site and find how to use the code tags to preserve the formatting of your code.

db