Hello, im new to Java and need a little help

[maggnus]

Hey i just started programming and i bought the book "Introduction to programming in Java" and im having some trouble with the exercises and was wonduring if someone here could guide me throu one or two of them that im struggling with.

I got all set up and all that but i cant get these two right, ill type up one of the exercises but if you guys are intrested in helping me please let me know and ill pm you the other one. Im asking you to guide me throu it dont just type the right answer since theres no challenge in that and i wont really learn anything from that :)

but here it is and those of you that arent beginners like me probably can type it up in few seconds

"Write a program that takes three positive integers as command-line-arguments and prints true if any one of them is greater or equal to the sum of the other two and false otherwise. (Note: This computation tests whether the three numbers could be the lengths of the sides of some triangle.)"

thanks

[DarrylBurke]

Give it your best shot and ask a specific question where you get stuck and you'll get all the help you need to learn.

Learning resource: The Java™ Tutorials

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[Fubarable]

Hey i just started programming and i bought the book "Introduction to programming in Java" and im having some trouble with the exercises and was wonduring if someone here could guide me throu one or two of them that im struggling with.

I got all set up and all that but i cant get these two right, ill type up one of the exercises but if you guys are intrested in helping me please let me know and ill pm you the other one.

No, please don't do that as that is not how this forum works. If you have questions or problems, please ask them here in the public forums. Our philosophy has always been to share problems and code with everyone, so please do not solicit help outside of the forum.

Im asking you to guide me throu it dont just type the right answer since theres no challenge in that and i wont really learn anything from that :)

Ask your specific questions and we'll try to help you out.

[maggnus]

Hi again and sorry about that i should have known better :/
anyways ive been trying to get this to work but i have no idea if its doing what its supposed to do so can you check this code i wrote and see if im doing it right or atleast heading in the right direction



thanks

[Norm]

check this code i wrote and see if im doing it right

Can you explain what the code is supposed to? Is the results when you execute the program correct?

One problem with the code is that it changes the value of isTriangle three times but only prints out the value of the last time.
The first two values are lost or ignored. If you want to know what its value was after any assignment statement, you need to print it out before changing it with another assignment statement.

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There is a very useful statement in many programming languages: The comment. If they are added in the code to describe what the code is supposed to do and how it will attempt to do it, anyone reading the code will be able to see what it's supposed to do. The posted code has no comments making it harder for readers to know what it is supposed to do.

[maggnus]

The program is supposed to print True if any integer is greater that or equal to the sum of the other two and false other wise

[Norm]

What does the code do now when you execute it? Does it give the correct results?

Did you add the other println statements after every assignment statement so the results of all the tests are shown and not lost?
The code currently only prints the results of the last test.