goldendesign Posted May 29, 2014 Share #1 Posted May 29, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted May 29, 2014 Share #2 Posted May 29, 2014 Dangit! EVERYTHING has a Catch-22. Can;t you just use your new Java knowledge to troubleshoot it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted May 29, 2014 Share #3 Posted May 29, 2014 Those kind of things happen in Wayne's World. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kzoo Posted May 29, 2014 Share #4 Posted May 29, 2014 Try 12.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Road Runner Posted May 29, 2014 Share #5 Posted May 29, 2014 Computers can't be wrong. 12 is the correct answer. Your answer of 12 is wrong. Maybe the computer interpreted your answer as being in base 8 instead of base 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingtermite Posted May 29, 2014 Share #6 Posted May 29, 2014 LOL.....testers needed at mathxl.com. Apply now! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldendesign Posted May 29, 2014 Author Share #7 Posted May 29, 2014 All my math classes from the dummy maths Mat1015 to Calc1 have been really good about being accurate. For some reason last night alone I received multiple errors like this. Maybe they updated their database and I was getting all the errors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate Posted May 29, 2014 Share #8 Posted May 29, 2014 if your answer is 12, you're not doing math, you're doing arithmetic. If the answer is 12 and you needed a computer at all, then you have bigger problems than a shoddy app download. But I see this is more like an online course, so we'll let that go for now now, let's look at the problem with the program...why would updating a database give you an error? The compare operators are going to act on the new data and your answer in the same way. Remember: software is never intermittent. It works or it doesn't. There will be no middle ground. Hardware and networks can be intermittent What does it do when you have a legitimate wrong answer? You might not have gotten any wrong and so didn't test this side of the problem, but it could be that the code monkeys they hired to do their maintenance work used the wrong compare and control flow logic What does it do when you type in a non numeric answer like "Fred Flintstone"? This is the process that one goes through to ascertain what the problem is. It will be your job to fix this exact sort of crap and you have to start understanding how to isolate the problem here endeth today's lesson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatBiker Posted May 29, 2014 Share #9 Posted May 29, 2014 I wonder if you had and inadvertent space after you entered your answer. But any good programmer should have the code check for that and remove the stray characters before evaluating. But we all know that the correct answer was 42. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted May 29, 2014 Share #10 Posted May 29, 2014 Was it multiple choice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nate Posted May 29, 2014 Share #11 Posted May 29, 2014 Was it multiple choice? probably. You can't really expect millennials to actually do something difficult. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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