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    Default Seeking Guidance On my beginner code

    hello I am doing this excercise from my book and my code keeps ending up in a never ending loop and I can not figure out why.
    I know the right answer to the assignment, but I was wondering if my way has a possibility to work. thank you!

    ----Exercise 4.3. The first verse of the song “99 Bottles of Beer” is:
    99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer, ya’ take one
    down, ya’ pass it around, 98 bottles of beer on the wall.
    Subsequent verses are identical except that the number of bottles gets smaller
    by one in each verse, until the last verse:
    No bottles of beer on the wall, no bottles of beer, ya’ can’t take
    one down, ya’ can’t pass it around, ’cause there are no more
    bottles of beer on the wall!
    And then the song(finally) ends.
    Write a program that prints the entire lyrics of “99 Bottles of Beer.” Your
    program should include a recursive method that does the hard part, but you
    might want to write additional methods to separate the major functions of
    the program.
    As you develop your code, test it with a small number of verses, like “3
    Bottles of Beer.”
    The purpose of this exercise is to take a problem and break it into smaller
    problems, and to solve the smaller problems by writing simple methods.--------




    public class BeersOnTheWall {
     
    	//Print statement for countdown
    	public static void beersOnWall(int OGbeers) {
    		System.out.println(OGbeers+" bottles of beer on the wall,");
    		System.out.println(OGbeers+ " bottles of beer, ya' take one down pass it around, "+ (OGbeers-1) +" bottles of beer." );
    		beersOnWall(OGbeers-1);
     
     
     
    	}
     
    	//print statement for End of loop
    	public static void noMoreBeers() {
    		System.out.println("No bottles of beer on the wall, no bottles of beer, ya’ can’t take\r\n" + 
    				"one down, ya’ can’t pass it around, ’cause there are no more\r\n" + 
    				"bottles of beer on the wall!");
    	}
     
    	//If statement begins here
    	public static void song(int OGbeers) {
    		if (OGbeers > 0){
    			beersOnWall(OGbeers);
     
     
     
    		}
    		else {
    			noMoreBeers();
    		}
    	}
     
    	//Main initilaztion
    	public static void main(String[] args) {
    		song(3);
    Last edited by brianp56; July 23rd, 2019 at 03:21 AM.

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    Default Re: Seeking Guidance On my beginner code

    code keeps ending up in a never ending loop
    That is usually because the condition to end the loop is never reached.
    Where is then loop you are talking about?

    Please edit your post and wrap your code with code tags:

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    Default Re: Seeking Guidance On my beginner code

    the loop starts at the if statement, in my head the way i see it working is that it will test if OGbeers is higher than 0 if so it will print the statement in beersOnWall and then minus one from OGbeers at the end of that
    then it will go back into the if statement and retest OGbeers until it is zero, but I dont think the if statement is retesting OGbeers after executing beersOnWall... Idk this probably sounds confusing but that is just my logic.

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    You have to call song() again inside beersOnWall method.
    Whatever you are, be a good one

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    public class BeersOnTheWall {
     
    	//Print statement for countdown
    	public static void beersOnWall(int OGbeers) {
    		System.out.println(OGbeers+" bottles of beer on the wall,");
    		System.out.println(OGbeers+ " bottles of beer, ya' take one down pass it around, "+ (OGbeers-1) +" bottles of beer." );
    		song(OGbeers-1);
     
     
     
     
    	}
     
    	//print statement for End of loop
    	public static void noMoreBeers() {
    		System.out.println("No bottles of beer on the wall, no bottles of beer, ya’ can’t take\r\n" + 
    				"one down, ya’ can’t pass it around, ’cause there are no more\r\n" + 
    				"bottles of beer on the wall!");
    	}
     
    	//If statement begins here
    	public static void song(int OGbeers) {
    		if (OGbeers > 0) {
    			beersOnWall(OGbeers);
     
     
    		}
    		else {
    			noMoreBeers();
    		}
    	}
     
    	//Main initilaztion
    	public static void main(String[] args) {
    		song(99);

    Wow, hell ya! thank you so much! as to if this is the best way to write this sort of code, I think not, but I am glad to finally get it working! thank you again

    --- Update ---

    litterally had to switch

    beersOnWall(OGbeers-1);

    with song(OGbeers-1); and It worked.. Crazy how long I stared at it just flabbergasted lol

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    No problem and all the best
    Whatever you are, be a good one

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