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The idea is that you figure out how you're going to solve the problem before writing any code. If he didn't tell you that, he should have.

Even just summarizing the requirement would be useful:
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I agree.



Quite - that's the most important guideline, and the one most often ignored by novices. Writing the code should be just translating a detailed design into Java. Designing an...

Your name is a single String, so why are you passing an array of Strings to your method?

Anyhow, You're looping through that array (which presumably only contains a single String - your name),...