[ritsamillion]

Hello,

First off, I am a noob so my experience in writing code is only about a month long.

I wrote a little program that asks the user to pick a number between 1 and 10.

I've also coded a random number generator to pick a number between 1 and 10.

My question is, how do I write the code so that if the user guesses a number and it happens
to equal the random number, a message is displayed.

Here is what I got so far:

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

public class practice {
	public static void main(String args[]){
		
		//Calling random object and calling it
		//thingy
		Random thingy = new Random();
                //Calling a Scanner and calling it guess
		Scanner guess = new Scanner(System.in);
		
		int number;
		int yourguess;
		
		System.out.println("Enter a number between 1 and 10, if you guess the correct number there will be a surprise message: ");
		yourguess = guess.nextInt();
		
		for (int counter=1; counter<=10; counter++){
			number = 1+thingy.nextInt(10);
		if (number = yourguess)
			System.out.println("Holy cow, you guessed the correct number!");
		else 
			System.out.println("You guessed the wrong number");
		}
		
	}
}

The problem is I get and error stating: Type mismatch: cannot convert from int to boolean

I understand what it's saying but how do I fix it?

Thanks,
Shane

[pbl]

the problem is here

    for (int counter=1; counter<=10; counter++){  
             number = 1+thingy.nextInt(10);  

you call for 10 different random number

You should:
- call thingy.nextInt(10) + 1 only once to get that random number
- compare it to the user input

[HopelessDev]

In this line :

if (number = yourguess)

What you're doing is that your are assigning number with the value of yourguess. When checking for equality of numbers use == not =.

This post has been edited by HopelessDev: 12 September 2012 - 08:05 PM

[ritsamillion]

Ok, thanks guys/gals, I'll try it.