Learning java programing - Array issues.

Question

Hi Everyone,
I just started in java programming and into Arrays multidimensional. I started a simple 2 dimensional array with 5 names with genders. I 'm having issues because it does not want to print out the names with correct genders Male/ Female. The simple program should print out the 5 names with gender type.
example:
Jack - Male
Sally - Female
Dave - Male
Sue - Female
Brian - Male
Here is what I came up with so far:
public class Multiname
     public static void main(String[] args)
          //String[][] multiname;
          String [][] multiname =
                    {"Jack", "sally"},
                    {"Dave", "Brian"},
                    {"Sue"}
          /* multiname [0][0] = "Jack";
          multiname [0][1] = "Male";
          multiname [1][0] = "Sally";
          multiname [1][1] = "Female";
          multiname [2][0] = "Dave";
          multiname [2][1] = "Male";
          multiname [3][0] = "Sue";
          multiname [3][1] = "Female";
          multiname [4][0] = "Brain";
          multiname [4][1] = "Male";     
          //int rows = 2;
     //int columns = 2;
               for(int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
                    {for(int j = 0; j < 2; j++)
                            System.out.println("multiname " + ": " + multiname [i][j]);               
This is the result:
multiname : Jack
multiname : sally
multiname : Dave
multiname : Brian
multiname : Sue
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException: 1
     at MultiD.main(MultiD.java:29)
Can someone inform me what is wrong or missing, and what do I need to do to correct this. I'm new to this and I'm a visual person. Any assistance would be appreciated.
Thanks,

Answer 1

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The simple program should print out the 5 names with gender
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How could it possibly do that when you commented out the lines the put the gender into the arrays?/* multiname [0][0] = "Jack";
multiname [0][1] = "Male";
multiname [1][0] = "Sally";
multiname [1][1] = "Female";
multiname [2][0] = "Dave";
multiname [2][1] = "Male";
multiname [3][0] = "Sue";
multiname [3][1] = "Female";
multiname [4][0] = "Brain";
multiname [4][1] = "Male";
When you are starting out don't use any more data than you need to get things working. You only need two name/gender combinations; any more just gets in the way.