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Thread: HELP? Rock paper scissors lizard spock game. Just need 1 last piece, can you help me?

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    Default HELP? Rock paper scissors lizard spock game. Just need 1 last piece, can you help me?

    So here's my code. It's alllllll done except I need the errorCount to be round specific.

    You need to run the 2 classes together.

    So when you run it. The error count should increment for each round. With an allotment of 2 errors per round.

    Right now it's just 2 errors total for the entire project. So if you make an error in round 1 and round 2 it exits.

    I'm trying to make it so if you make 2 errors in 1 round if exits.

    So if you did:

    Round 1: "q"
    invalid input (error count =1)

    it reprompts

    Round 1: "1"
    Paper beats rock. You win a point (error count = 0)

    Round 2: "q"
    invald input (error count = 1)

    reprompts

    Round 2: "q"
    invalid input (error count = 2)
    you have entered too many invalid inputs
    system.exit(0)

    Does that make sense?
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    Default Re: HELP? Rock paper scissors lizard spock game. Just need 1 last piece, can you help me?

    I need the errorCount to be round specific.
    Would saving the errorCount in an array (or arraylist) with the index being the round do the job?
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    Default Re: HELP? Rock paper scissors lizard spock game. Just need 1 last piece, can you help me?

    Thanks for the reply man!

    I'm not sure actually. I'm a super noob at programming ,but I'll give it a shot and let you know if it works!

    --- Update ---

    Ok so I have no idea how I would use an array for this.

    I'm using a giant switch statement for the game itself & right now I'm just trying to make my default case track the errors.

    So I'm trying to do something like

    default:
    System.out.println("The input you entered is invalid.");

    if (roundCount == 1)
    errorCount++;
    else errorCount = 0;

    if (roundCount == 2){
    errorCount++;
    else errorCount = 0;


    it works if for round 1 if I only have the first if else ,but when I try to use the same if else for the other rounds it just keeps reseting the error count to 0.

    outside the switch I have

    if(errorCount == 2 ){
    System.out.println("You entered too many invalid inputs.");
    System.out.print("Goodbye!");
    System.exit(0);

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    Default Re: HELP? Rock paper scissors lizard spock game. Just need 1 last piece, can you help me?

    Make errorCount an array and use the round number as the index.
    For the first round add to errorCount[0]
    for the second round add to errorCount[1]
    etc

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    Default Re: HELP? Rock paper scissors lizard spock game. Just need 1 last piece, can you help me?

    Ok! I fixed it!

    I guess I'm just dumb. I couldn't figure out the array ,but here's my fix if you're interested.

    <switch (playerChoice){
    			case "1":
    				//call to computer 
    				errorCount = 0;
    				roundCount++;
    				computerChoice = RockPaperScissorsLizardSpockComputerPlayer.getChoice();
    				System.out.println("The computer player chooses " + computerChoice);
    				switch (computerChoice){
    				case "rock":
    					System.out.println("Its a tie!");
    					System.out.println("No points are awarded.");
    					break;
    				case "paper":
    					System.out.println("Paper covers rock.");
    					System.out.println("The computer player wins a point.");
    					computerPoints++;
    					break;
    				case "scissors":
    					System.out.println("Rock crushes scissors.");
    					System.out.println("Congratulations! You win a point.");
    					playerPoints++;
    					break;
    				case "lizard":
    					System.out.println("Rock crushes lizard");
    					System.out.println("Congratulations! You win a point.");
    					playerPoints++;
    					break;
    				case "spock":
    					System.out.println("Spock vaporizes rock.");
    					System.out.println("The computer player wins a point.");
    					computerPoints++;
    					break;
    				}
    				break;>

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