so who's here from australia?

[chewman]

I know I've seen a couple of ppl in the couple of hrs that I've been here...but...oh yeah, and ..yes I am

[platinum]

I am

Actually I think you followed a link I put at the Australian INfront forums if i'm not wrong

Welcome to sitepoint anyway...
you can go introduce yourself in the introductions forums if you haven't yet -

[chewman]

hehe, sure did...you posted after me, and so I looked in your profile....saw this site was pretty good...so I joined

[mmj]

There's quite a lot of Australians here.

In fact, SitePoint is an Australian company.

G'day!

[tommatthews]

Sydney Oi Oi Oi!

[billiousness]

there are heaps of aussies here, it is not suprising to sometimes see half the posts in some threads all from down under.

i'm from wonderful queensland

[hostjet]

im from sydney,
it would nice to see this thread become really long!

[iTec]

guess where im from








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[chewman]

hey that's pretty cool... haven't found a place yet until that was kinda filled with Aussies...oh yeah, besides Aussie InFront

Just finished my Java programming exam today...and I must say....eeeaassy! The hardest bit was actually convincing myself that this was the exam and not my dreams! Seriously, the practice exam was harder...but hey, I've finished now so its ALL good! see you guys around

[platinum]

Originally posted by chewman
Just finished my Java programming exam today...and I must say....eeeaassy!

You're doing java as well??? argggahhha

You want to pop over to Adelaide and do mine for me? I think i'm going to fail it

[chewman]

haha, nah its easy! well maybe coz I spent like the last 3 days trying to do it and I kinda know how to do my stuff like Applets and Applications which use ActionListener like the back of my hand now...and I know how to do stuff with arrays! yess! hehehe...mind you you I'll probably forget in about a day or two!

what kinda stuff you doing with Java? Since my course is not quite a design course, but not quite a computing course, we do Java but we concentrate on the graphical side. but what about you?

OH yeah and which part of Adelaide? are you close to those Planet Shakers events?

[platinum]

I'm doing computer and information science, it is *REALLY* boring, more boring than anything else I can image! (apart from iTec)..

We've havn't covered much really, just finished arrays... but thats just my first semester. I really want to do a straight out design course though, pity there arn't any

   import cs1.Keyboard;
           
   public class P05Main
           
   {
              
      public static void main (String [] args)
              
      {
         double 
         temperature,                            // The temperature on a given day
         highestTemperature,                    // The highest temperature, all days
         lowestTemperature,                    // The lowest temperature, all days
         rain;                                        // The rainfall on a given day
         int        
         numberOfDays = 0,                        // The number of days of data
         numberOfRainyDays = 0;                // The number of rainy days.
      
         System.out.println ("Gavin Benda. 100000117. Thursday 13. Room F1-11");
         System.out.println ("***********************************************");
         System.out.println ("This is my work as defined by the");
         System.out.println ("university's academic misconduct policy.");
      
          // Get user input
      
         System.out.print ("Enter the temperature and rainfall data >");
         temperature = Keyboard.readDouble();
         rain = Keyboard.readDouble();
      
         lowestTemperature = temperature;
         highestTemperature = temperature;
      
         int dayCount = 0;
         int rainyDayCount = 0;
         while (rain >= 0)
         {
            if (temperature > highestTemperature)
               highestTemperature = temperature;
            else if (temperature < lowestTemperature)
               lowestTemperature = temperature;
            else {}
         
            System.out.print ("Enter the temperature and rainfall data >");
            temperature = Keyboard.readDouble();
            rain = Keyboard.readDouble();
         
         
            numberOfDays = ++dayCount;
         
                 // Check rain is a (+)ve value
         
            if (rain > 0)
               numberOfRainyDays = ++rainyDayCount;
            else {}
         
         } //end while
      
         System.out.println ("");
      
      
      
          // Print highest and lowest temperatures
      
         System.out.println ("The higest temperature was: " + highestTemperature + " Degrees");
         System.out.println ("The lowest temperature was: " + lowestTemperature + " Degrees");
      
          // Check for single or multiple days / Rainy days
          // Print data accordingly    
      
         if (numberOfDays == 1)
            System.out.println ("There was " + numberOfDays + " day");
         
         else if (numberOfDays > 1)
            System.out.println ("There were " + numberOfDays + " days");
         
         else
         {
            System.out.println ("No data entered 1");
            System.exit(0);
         }
      
         if (numberOfRainyDays == 1)
            System.out.println ("There was " + numberOfRainyDays + " rainy day");
         
         else if (numberOfRainyDays > 1)
            System.out.println ("There were " + numberOfRainyDays + " rainy days");
         
         else
            System.out.println ("No Rain Experienced");
         System.exit(0);
      
      }    //End Method
   }     // End P05Main 

is about the extent of my java experience

I'm in north adelaide though, and planet shaker events never heard of them...

[RussellG]

Perth guy here

[Lawrence]

Canberra guy here. And new around these SitePoint parts as well. Don't let the registration date fool you... I kind of signed up and took a year off

[chewman]

Perth ey! Good to see some 'range' hehe:P

Plats
That's alright Java...not too hard. You seem to know what you're doing. Can I ask a few questions, and give a tip maybe
Q1: is there only supposed to be one import? or there isn't supposed to be any:
import java.awt.*;

Q2: why doesn't this work? I chucked this in my java program thingy...the uni told us to us JCreator, so that's what I use...and since I saw you used the args[] array, I thought itd have to be an Application....but JCreator didn't like your import csl.Keyboard import. Not sure why.

Advice:
Not sure whether or not your uni has told you, but I've heard that its good practice to use those curly braces if you use loops. A whole chunk of my Java code didn't work just because of that...and so I ALWAYS put curly braces such like:
INSTEAD OF THIS:

while (rain >= 0)
         {
            if (temperature > highestTemperature)
               highestTemperature = temperature;
            else if (temperature < lowestTemperature)
               lowestTemperature = temperature;
            else {} 

I DO THIS:

while (rain >= 0) {
    if (temperature > highestTemperature) {
        highestTemperature = temperature;
    } else if (temperature < lowestTemperature) {
        lowestTemperature = temperature;
    }
} 

I'm not sure why you had the else{} code, coz well else nothing...thats what that's basically saying.


Anyway, that's enough from me

[platinum]

Well you have to use the curly brackets if you go for anymore than one line of code in your if statement, but if it's just a single line you dont need to bother

hehe, yeah, the else was just in there because it was

not sure why it doesn't work?! I use pcGRASP, thinking of upgrading to JGRASP, but it compiles and runs okay for me...

[mmj]

Originally posted by platinum


You're doing java as well??? argggahhha

You want to pop over to Adelaide and do mine for me? I think i'm going to fail it

Wanna pop over to Melbourne and do mine for me too?

[chewman]

hehe, mmj, if you're talking to me...well I'm in Melbourne! *YES*! another Melbournian!
what uni do you go to?

[LTW-Shark]

Originally posted by mmj
There's quite a lot of Australians here.

In fact, SitePoint is an Australian company.

G'day!

Unfortunately, it's a Melbourne company But of course, this comes from a person from north of the border

[Bu$ta KartOon]

Perth dude here!

[iTec]

Originally posted by platinum
more boring than anything else I can image! (apart from iTec)..

[mmj]

Originally posted by chewman
hehe, mmj, if you're talking to me...well I'm in Melbourne! *YES*! another Melbournian!
what uni do you go to?

Haha that's great. I don't know of many other sitepointers that are from Melbourne. I'm at Melbourne Uni.

[chewman]

Originally posted by mmj


Haha that's great. I don't know of many other sitepointers that are from Melbourne. I'm at Melbourne Uni.

hehe, well you can add me to your list what course are you doing?

[mmj]

Are you at Melbourne Uni too?

[chewman]

Nah, I'm at Monash...but down at the Berwick campus