Question

I’ve been working on a program that is supposed to output the winning status of a racing cart. I thought I had everything set up correctly, and followed my instructor’s outline in class last week. However, in doing so I cannot get the output to print. My thought is that I may be stuck in a loop, but I don’t really know how to get out of it. I’ve been working on it for four hours now, and have searched for answers low and high to no avail. I get no errors when compiling, so I’m not sure what the issue could be.

import java.util.*;
import java.math.*;

public class Assignment2{

public static void main(String args[]){

}

int r, cart, value;

public void race(){ //generates random number to assign value to cart
    Random ran = new Random();
    int r = ran.nextInt(0) + 6;
            value = r;
    }
public int getValue(){ //assigns value to carts
    return value;
    }
public void display(){ //sys.out to print results
    race();

    if (value == 5){
        System.out.println("______");
        System.out.println("|____|  Winning Status = 5");
        System.out.println(" o o");
        }
    else if(value == 4){
        System.out.println("______");
        System.out.println("|____|  Winning Status = 4");
        System.out.println(" o o");
        }
    else if(value == 3){
        System.out.println("______");
        System.out.println("|____|  Winning Status = 3");
        System.out.println(" o o");
        }
    else if(value == 2){
        System.out.println("______");
        System.out.println("|____|  Winning Status = 2");
        System.out.println(" o o");
        }
    else if(value == 1){
        System.out.println("______");
        System.out.println("|____|  Winning Status = 1");
        System.out.println(" o o  YOU'RE FIRST! CONGRATS!");
        }
    }
}

Answer 1

There is nothing in your main() method, so nothing is actually executed. Perhaps you mean:

public static void main(String args[]) {
    (new Assignment2()).display();
}

As your code exists now, you should do away with r (it is unused) and change the following:

// int r = ran.nextInt(0) + 6;
value = ran.nextInt(5) + 1;