java program looping through 3 arrays

irishgem

Please, could somebody help me here. I'm crap at Java and need to write out this simple enough progam for college. Needs to be in tomorrow and have spent ages trying to do it but it's still wrong, too many errors, won't compile, etc. Meant to be using a method in it but just can't do this program. Any sort of help at all would be appreciated!

Capture information relating to your CD collection

Prompt for number of CD's that you are going to enter
use JOptionPane to collect data

Loop correct number of times to collect the details of each CD from the user
use JOptionPane to collect data

Perform simple error checking on input
E.g. check that the user input something
Populate 3 arrays with the information collected

CD collection
Artist
Title
Year

Display the CD collection back to the user
format output
one row per CD

Use both System.out.println and JOptionPane to display output

dlofnep

Why not just create a CD object and just create an array of them. Or does it have to be a 3d array?

fasty

That's a good place to start.

Make a a CD Collection object with 3 arrays and some methods that let you add a CD entry and another that lets you get a CD entry at a particular index.

Once that's done and compiling without errors move on to data input and output.

No one's really going to help you more than that unless you post some code and say exactly what you've tried and what errors you get.

Programming is easy if you break a problem down into parts and just google or use a book to look up errors and find exampless.

irishgem

thanks for your help. Will try some more