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Thread: Converting temperature program

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    Default Converting temperature program

    Alright so I'm having trouble creating this program, basically I need to prompt the user to enter a 1 or 2 if 1, you run a convert from Fahrenheit to celsius, or if the user presses 2, the program runs celsius to fahrenheit. Here's what I have so far:

    import java.util.Scanner;
     
    public class TemperatureConverter{
       public static void main(String[] args){
          Scanner console = new Scanner(System.in);
     
          System.out.println("Please press 1 to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius, or 2 to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit");
          int choice = console.nextInt();
                    if (choice == 1){
    	  	   ftoc();	  
    	  	 }
    	  	 else if (choice == 2){
    	  	   ctof();
    	  	  }
     
          System.out.println("What is the temperature?");
          double temperature = console.nextDouble();
     
     
          System.out.println("Your converted temperature is ");
       }
     
       //converts fahrenheit to celsius
       public static double ftoc (double degreesF){
          double degreesC = 5.0/9.0 * (degreesF - 32);
          return degreesC;
       }
     
       //converts celsius to fahrenheit
       public static double ctof (double degreesC){
          double degreesF = 9.0/5.0 * (degreesC + 32);
          return degreesF;
       }
     
    }

    I'm having trouble with what I need to do after the user puts a 1 or a 2 idk how I should go about if the user presses 1 then run this method, but if the user presses 2 run this method. It keeps giving me a bunch of errors saying that it's a variable, but I'm not assigning a variable, I'm calling the method to run that. I'm so confused


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    Default Re: Converting temperature program

    your ftoc and ctof methods require you to pass a double as a parameter.

    Something like this:
    ftoc(5.0);

    You still need to get a number to convert from the user (use the nextDouble() method in Scanner).

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    Default Re: Converting temperature program

    Huh? Do you mean instead of nextInt make it nextDouble? What do I put inside the parenthesis then?

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    Default Re: Converting temperature program

    try this, just a re-arrange and helloworlds edit.

    import java.util.Scanner;
     
    public class TemperatureConverter{
       public static void main(String[] args){
          Scanner console = new Scanner(System.in);
     
          System.out.println("Please press 1 to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius, or 2 to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit");
          int choice = console.nextInt();
     
     
          System.out.println("What is the temperature?");
          double temperature = console.nextDouble();
          double t = 0.0;
          if (choice == 1){
    	  	  t = ftoc(temperature);	  
          }
          else if (choice == 2){
    	  	  t = ctof(temperature);
          }
     
          System.out.println("Your converted temperature is " + t );
       }
     
       //converts fahrenheit to celsius
       public static double ftoc (double degreesF){
          double degreesC = 5.0/9.0 * (degreesF - 32);
          return degreesC;
       }
     
       //converts celsius to fahrenheit
       public static double ctof (double degreesC){
          double degreesF = 9.0/5.0 * (degreesC + 32);
          return degreesF;
       }
     
    }

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