Bird Watcher in Java

[unborn lodge]

Hello, i'm a beginner in Java, is this supposed to be a beginner exercise? Because can't really understand how should i start in the editor.

[latent spindle]

Did you implement task1?

What is the part you are struggling with?

[unborn lodge]

task1 it says to get last week numbers

i assume it's an array stored somewhere

the exercise itself gives me the numbers, but am i supposed to store them inside the getLastWeek function?

and return them

[latent spindle]

yep, you can certainly do that.

last week always has those numbers

so you can either generate them inside the function, or outside (right below the birdsPerDay array for instance)

[unborn lodge]

by generate what do u mean?

[latent spindle]

just type them manually

the exercise is about arrays so that's what you should be returning from this function

[unborn lodge]

        int[] lastWeekBirds = {0, 2, 5, 3, 7, 8, 4};
        return lastWeekBirds;
        //throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Please implement the BirdCount.getLastWeek() method");
    }```

[latent spindle]

press the "run tests" button to see if the relevant tests pass

[unborn lodge]

i don't understand if i should think of this exercise as a single big program or if these functions are kinda apart from each other

it feels kinda weird

[latent spindle]

in general it's a single program, you are free to use one function inside another

but each task will often correspond to a single function

[unborn lodge]

i see now

[unborn lodge]

i solved it now

thanks for the support

[latent spindle]

you are welcome. Now, on to the next one 🙂 Cheers.

[unborn lodge]

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[unborn lodge]

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