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From: Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Class assignment help
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:30:15 -0400
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On 07/21/2014 05:29 PM, Scott Dunning wrote:
> On 7/21/14, 12:35 PM, Roedy Green wrote:
>> On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 10:50:22 -0400, Tim Slattery <tim@risingdove.com>
>> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :
>>
>>> You'll need to assign them a dummy value (highName = "no
>>> name yet";) or an empty string (secondHighName = "";) to get rid of
>>
>> null will keep it happy. You might later get an NullPointerException
>> if you don't get a real value in there soon enough.
>>
>
>
> So I got it "working" which is to say it will run.  However, after it
> asks to how many students names and grades I'd like to enter it asks
> both of the next questions at the same time and that then causes an
> error.  Since it's in the for loop I'm not sure how to get it to ask the
> questions separately.  Any tips?

java.io.Console - if you're allowed to use it.
<http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/cl.html>