Object-Oriented Programming with Java, part I – Exercise 50

This program takes user input and then uses a loop to print the first three characters of the input. If there are less than three characters it outputs nothing.

My Code

import java.util.Scanner;

public class FirstCharacters {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Scanner reader = new Scanner(System.in);
        System.out.print("Type your name: ");
        String name = reader.nextLine();
        int tick = 0;
        while ((tick < 3) && (name.length() > 2)) {
            System.out.println((tick +1) + ". character: " + name.charAt(tick));
            tick++;

        }
    }
}

Model Code

import java.util.Scanner;

 

public class FirstCharacters {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        Scanner reader = new Scanner(System.in);

        System.out.print("Type your name: ");

        String name = reader.nextLine();

 

        if (name.length() < 3) {

            return;

        }

 

        int i = 0;

        while (i < 3) {

            System.out.println((i + 1) + ". character: " + name.charAt(i));

            i++;

        }

    }

}

Comments

Although achieving the same result I quite like a few things about the model code that I don’t have in mine. The use of i instead of tick as the iterative variable and the use of the if statement to return nothing if the word length is under 3.