Question

What I’m attempting to do is search “gradePsd” array find the highest grade and if there are two grades that are the same value print the name (s) of the students to console.

The problem I’m having is that this method is taking the first index value of the array and printing it because it IS the high value at the first pass and if the second value is larger than the first then it will also print and so on.

So my question is how can I get it to just print the student (s) with the high grade.

public static void hiMarkMethod(String[] NamePsd, int[] gradePsd)
{
    String nameRtn = "";
    int num = gradePsd[0];

    System.out.println ("\n\nThe Student(s) with Hightest Mark(s) are:");

    for (int  i = 0; i < gradePsd.length;  i++)
    {
        if (gradePsd[i] >= num)
        {
            num = gradePsd[i];
            nameRtn = NamePsd[i]; 
        }

        System.out.print(nameRtn + ", ");
    }
}

Answer 1

first find the highest number
then print the students with that number

public static void hiMarkMethod(String[] NamePsd, int[] gradePsd)
    {

    String nameRtn = "";
    int num = gradePsd[0];

     System.out.println ("\n\nThe Student(s) with Hightest Mark(s) are:");
    //find the highest number
    for (int  i = 0; i < gradePsd.length;  i++){
    if (gradePsd[i] >= num){
        num = gradePsd[i];
    }
    //print students with that number
    for (int  j = 0; j < NamePsd.length;  j++){
        if (gradePsd[j] == num)
        {
            nameRtn = NamePsd[j]; 
            System.out.print(nameRtn + ", "); 
        }
    }

one of possible 1000 solutions.