[Keithabt]

I am a beginner and need a little guidence. In my source code I keep getting an error that states" varible x2 might not have been initalized"
does anyone have a suggestion?

import java.util.Scanner;// program uses class Scanner

public class DistanceMethod
{
   // Main method begins execution of Java application
  public static void main( String args[] )
  {
	
		 // create scanner to obtain input from the command line
		  Scanner input = new Scanner( System.in );
		  
		  
		  
		 double x1;
		 double x2;
		 double y1;
		 double y2;
		 double distance;
		 
		  
		  
		 distance = Math.sqrt((x2-x1)*(x2-x1) + (y2-y1)*(y2-y1)); 		  
		  System.out.print( "Enter the the coordinates for x1");// Prompt
		  x1 = input.nextInt(); // Read the number for x1
		  
		  System.out.print( "Enter the the coordinates for x2");// Prompt
		  x2 = input.nextInt(); // Read the number for x2
		  
		  System.out.print( "Enter the the coordinates for y1");// Prompt
		  y1 = input.nextInt(); // Read the number for y1
		  
		  System.out.print( "Enter the the coordinates for x2");// Prompt
		  y2 = input.nextInt(); // Read the number for y2 
		  
		  System.out.print( "The distance between the two points are" +  distance);
		  
		  
  }		  
		  

		  
		  
		  
		  
}

*please use code tags:

[BetaWar]

Your problem is that you have set distance before you have any values for x1, x2, y1, or y2 so it can't come up with anything.

Here, this should work:

import java.util.Scanner;// program uses class Scanner

public class DistanceMethod{
  // Main method begins execution of Java application
  public static void main( String args[] ){
	// create scanner to obtain input from the command line
	Scanner input = new Scanner( System.in );
	double x1;
	double x2;
	double y1;
	double y2;
	double distance;

	System.out.print( "Enter the the coordinates for x1");// Prompt
	x1 = input.nextInt(); // Read the number for x1

	System.out.print( "Enter the the coordinates for x2");// Prompt
	x2 = input.nextInt(); // Read the number for x2

	System.out.print( "Enter the the coordinates for y1");// Prompt
	y1 = input.nextInt(); // Read the number for y1

	System.out.print( "Enter the the coordinates for x2");// Prompt
	y2 = input.nextInt(); // Read the number for y2 

	distance = Math.sqrt((x2-x1)*(x2-x1) + (y2-y1)*(y2-y1)); 
	System.out.print( "The distance between the two points are"+distance);
  }
} 

Hope that helps.

[Keithabt]

BetaWar, on 11 Sep, 2008 - 08:01 PM, said:

Your problem is that you have set distance before you have any values for x1, x2, y1, or y2 so it can't come up with anything.

Here, this should work:

import java.util.Scanner;// program uses class Scanner

public class DistanceMethod{
  // Main method begins execution of Java application
  public static void main( String args[] ){
	// create scanner to obtain input from the command line
	Scanner input = new Scanner( System.in );
	double x1;
	double x2;
	double y1;
	double y2;
	double distance;

	System.out.print( "Enter the the coordinates for x1");// Prompt
	x1 = input.nextInt(); // Read the number for x1

	System.out.print( "Enter the the coordinates for x2");// Prompt
	x2 = input.nextInt(); // Read the number for x2

	System.out.print( "Enter the the coordinates for y1");// Prompt
	y1 = input.nextInt(); // Read the number for y1

	System.out.print( "Enter the the coordinates for x2");// Prompt
	y2 = input.nextInt(); // Read the number for y2 

	distance = Math.sqrt((x2-x1)*(x2-x1) + (y2-y1)*(y2-y1)); 
	System.out.print( "The distance between the two points are"+distance);
  }
} 

Hope that helps.

Yes, thank you for explaining it to me!

[kestrel]

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[macosxnerd101]

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