Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Scott Dunning Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Class assignment help Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 23:59:06 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 06:56:43 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="11828741c91d0da908948c6ecdf164c7"; logging-data="8869"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+qT0sGSYg1+9euFiXK64exu33VRxdtoCo=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:7P1qZsWzUzbT9EhiSzW+QJnm7WQ= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:29149 On 7/20/14, 10:55 PM, Roedy Green wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jul 2014 21:57:40 -0700, Scott Dunning > wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who > said : > >> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problem: > > That is the first time I have ever seen that message. How did you > compile this? It was not javac.exe was it? > > Literally it is saying that there were compile time errors you > ignored, but it tried to run anyway. > > What error messages came out at compile time? > That is in the IDE eclipse. I just tried to compile it in a text editor with terminal and these are the errors I'm getting. I'm not really sure what it means. Doesn't initializing it mean to declare the variables? StudentScore.java:35: error: variable highName might not have been initialized secondHighName = highName; ^ StudentScore.java:42: error: variable highName might not have been initialized System.out.print("Student with the highest score: " + highName + " " + highScore); ^ StudentScore.java:43: error: variable secondHighName might not have been initialized System.out.print("Student with the second highest score: " + secondHighName + " " + secondHighScore); ^ 3 errors