stuck on a program

[Trevor_4]

i need help trying to set a program that will have three arrays one for number of students anothe rfor 3 exams and final the average of all the grades can any one help

[diafol]

So show your code so far.

[Trevor_4]

import java.util.*; 
public class array
{
    public static void main (String [] args)
    {
        int s, e, sum;
        double avg;
        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
        String [] exam = {"exam1", "exam2", "exam3"};
        e= exam.length;
        int[]exam1= new int [e];
        int[]exam2= new int[e];
        int[]exam3= new int[e];
        System.out.println("enter a grade for exam 1:" +exam[e]);
        exam1[e]=input.nextInt();
        System.out.println("enter a grade for exam 2:" +exam[e]);
        exam2[e]=input.nextInt();
        System.out.println("enter a grade for exam 3:" +exam[e]);
        exam3[e]=input.nextInt(); 
        }

[Slavi]

What do you need help with at that point?

[Trevor_4]

I mean I'm still new to java .. Like the assignment was to set up separate array for students , their exams and there grade/avg .. I'm just stuck on how to set it up and my professor is no help

[stultuske]

 int[]exam1= new int [e];
int[]exam2= new int[e];
int[]exam3= new int[e];
System.out.println("enter a grade for exam 1:" +exam[e]);
exam1[e]=input.nextInt();
System.out.println("enter a grade for exam 2:" +exam[e]);
exam2[e]=input.nextInt();
System.out.println("enter a grade for exam 3:" +exam[e]);
exam3[e]=input.nextInt(); 

this part of your code makes no sense.

1. you only need one array, not three of them
2. exam1[e]=input.nextInt(); not only does it make no sense in doing this three times, but it's a runtime exception (arrayIndexOutOfBoundsException) waiting to happen.
   the length of your array is e. so, that means the valid indices go from 0 to e-1.
   element with index e doesn't exist, because it is 'out of bounds'.
   even if it was a valid index, you set three times the element with the same index, so you would just be overwriting the value
3. System.out.println("enter a grade for exam 1:" +exam[e]);
   same here: exam[e] doesn't exist. it's out of bounds.
   but, since you are already printing exam [number], why would you print that exam-element?

you should have something like:

int[] exams = new int[e];
for ( int i = 0; i < e; i++){
  System.out.println("enter a grade for exam " + (i+1) + ": " );
  exams[i]=input.nextInt(); 
  }

here, each iteration the value of i is updated, so it won't overwrite data you've entered. and, because of the i < e statement, the iteration will end before an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException can occur.

[Slavi]

And if you want to print the array afterwards, you could do the for loop but instead of writing to exams[i], you just print out the value exams[i]

[diafol]

I'm just stuck on how to set it up and my professor is no help

heh heh, how many times have I heard that?!