bit of help please...

i am very new to java programming and it will be evident in the code i have written, however, i have watched a few tutorials and i am trying to put together a few parts of java i have learnt and i have thought about how to write this for so long but i just cannot do this :( basically heres my code, and you may be able to tell what i am trying to do with it, if not, i will explain after anyway:

import java.util.Random;

public class array {

public static void main(String[] args){

Random rndmNum = new Random();
int numArray[] = new int[10];
int Number;

for(int counter=0;counter<10;counter++){


Number= numArray[1 + rndmNo.nextInt(99)];
System.out.println(counter + "=" + Number);

}


}


}

i was hoping this programme would do something close to reading in an array of size 10 int, making 10 random integers, and the bit i was finding the hardest: allocating these random numbers into the array, and then printing the number of the array out and the random value it has taken, the random value being between 1-100. please can someone help me clear this up i am sure there are a lot of errors and i have probably forgotten a few lines of essential code to make this work, thanks guys.

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Originally Posted by Andrew123

i am very new to java programming and it will be evident in the code i have written, however, i have watched a few tutorials and i am trying to put together a few parts of java i have learnt and i have thought about how to write this for so long but i just cannot do this :( basically heres my code, and you may be able to tell what i am trying to do with it, if not, i will explain after anyway:

import java.util.Random;

public class array {

public static void main(String[] args){

Random rndmNum = new Random();
int numArray[] = new int[10];
int Number;

for(int counter=0;counter<10;counter++){


Number= numArray[1 + rndmNo.nextInt(99)];
System.out.println(counter + "=" + Number);

}


}


}

i was hoping this programme would do something close to reading in an array of size 10 int, making 10 random integers, and the bit i was finding the hardest: allocating these random numbers into the array, and then printing the number of the array out and the random value it has taken, the random value being between 1-100. please can someone help me clear this up i am sure there are a lot of errors and i have probably forgotten a few lines of essential code to make this work, thanks guys.

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hallo, your array is declared with int[10] so the range for the index is from 0 to 9. now, the expression numArray[1 + rndmNo.nextInt(99)] generate an index between 1 and 100, which cause an IndexOutOfException. i think your code should look like

Code :

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import java.util.Random;
 
public class array {
 
	public static void main(String[] args) {
 
		Random rndmNum = new Random();
		int numArray[] = new int[10];
		int Number;
 
		for (int counter = 0; counter < 10; counter++) {
 
			// generate a number in range 1..100
			Number = rndmNum.nextInt(100) + 1;
			numArray[counter] = Number;
			System.out.println(counter + "=" + Number);
		}
	}
}

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an improvement to the code is to check if the generated number is already in your list. so generate a number, until the check become false.

thank you very much!

i thought i was missing something, and i was also getting mixed up between having the ten random numbers and what ranged those ten random numbers could be in.

i will practice a few more like this from scratch, maybe using more than one method.

once again, thank you very much i had been kicking myself over this, and i thought i could do it as a couple of years ago i learnt c++ and a programme like this was no problem then :)