Wondering if someone could help a beginner out with a project thru AIM IMs

Question

my screen name is Ohshtdude and I have a very basic java project due in a few hours, I have a good portion of it done I just have a few basic questions(dont know too much about java, been studying it for a week or two now), if someone can IM me and help me out a bit it would be very much appreciated, thank you

Answer 1

Chris373 wrote:
i have the first part done (asking the user to type in a sentence and stopping the program if they type stop), Perhaps not. An if block will only run once (if at all), while it sounds like you need something that will repeat until the user types "stop". A loop might work better here.
and i'm aware that I should probably declare a string for the sentence input, You've already got one, ans.
but the part I dont know how to do is how to get the program to read through the characters and count the same consecutive letters. Figure out how you'd solve this on paper, the exact steps you'd use, then break these steps down into smaller steps, and keep breaking until you're at very primitive steps, and finally, then try to code this into Java. You'll want to be online and looking at the String API as it will have some methods that you'll need, and you can find ithere: [http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/String.html]
i'm just asking for someone to help walk me through this.A walk-through may be still asking a bit too much. Some nudges hopefully in a positive direction may be forthcoming though.