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From: Scott Dunning <scottwd01@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Class assignment help
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 21:57:40 -0700
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On 7/20/14, 9:53 PM, Scott Dunning wrote:

I sent that message prematurely.  I'm in a class in college and we're 
doing Java.  This is only my 4th class so I'm super new (be nice).  I'm 
getting an error that I don't understand...

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problem:

	at StudentScore.StudentScore.main(StudentScore.java:14)







> /*Write a java program that prompts the user to enter the number of
> students and then each student’s name and score,
>   * and finally displays the student with highest score and the student
> with the second- highest score.
>   * You are NOT allowed to use ‘Arrays’ for this problem (as we have not
> covered arrays yet).
>   *
>   * HINT: You do not need to remember all the inputs. You only need to
> maintain variables for max and second max
>   *  scores and corresponding names. Whenever you read a new input, you
> need to compare it to the so far established
>   *  max & second max scores and change things accordingly. */
>
>
> import java.util.Scanner;
>
> public class StudentScore {
>
>      public static void main(String[] args) {
>
>          String studentName, highName, secondHighName;
>          int score, highScore=0, secondHighScore=0;
>          int count;
>          int classSize;
>
>          Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
>
>          System.out.print("How many students' grades do you want to
> enter? ");
>          classSize = scan.nextInt();
>
>          for (int i = 0; i < classSize; i++)  {
>              System.out.print("Please enter the students name? ");
>              studentName = scan.nextLine();
>
>              System.out.print("Please enter the students score? ");
>              score = scan.nextInt();
>
>              if (score >= secondHighScore) {
>                  secondHighScore = highScore;
>                  secondHighName = highName;
>                  highScore = score;
>                  highName = studentName;
>
>              }
>          }
>
>          System.out.print("Student with the highest score: " + highName
> + " " + highScore);
>          System.out.print("Student with the second highest score: " +
> secondHighName + " " + secondHighScore);
>
>      }
> }