In this task I keep getting an error message. I'm confused where I should put the curly braces.

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There is a program that takes an age as input and determines whether you need to head to school or to college. But it doesn't work correctly. For example, a five-year-old child is sent off to college! It isn't difficult to fix the program: just put curly braces in the right place.

Requirements:

The program should read a number from the keyboard.
The program must use the System.out.println() or System.out.print() command.
If the age is less than 18 and greater than or equal to 6, you should display only "Off to school with you, my child".
If the age is greater than or equal to 18, you should display only "Your college class starts soon".
If the age is less than 6, then don't display anything.

package en.codegym.task.pro.task03.task0303; import java.util.Scanner; /* School or college */ public class Solution { public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner console = new Scanner(System.in); int age = console.nextInt(); if (age < 18) if (age >= 6) { } System.out.println("Off to school with you, my child"); else if { (age >= 18) } System.out.println("Your college class starts soon"); //else //System.out.println(); } }

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haayden

Level 18 , United States of America, United States

13 May 2022, 13:39

For the ending curly braces, you don't put it before the thing you want to do, like the System.out.println() }, not } System.out.println(); Also, you put the starting curly brace ({) AFTER the condition, so it isn't

if { (3==2)

Think of the starting curly brace as the word "then", so you would do

if (3==2) { // then
  System.out.println("whatever");
} // end

Just so you know, for the else statement, there isn't a condition, so it's just else then, or

else { // then
  //do something
} //end

Hope I helped! If you need further explanation, i'll be happy to help.

Guadalupe Gagnon

Level 37 , Tampa, United States

10 May 2022, 15:30

lines 16 and 17 are your problem. On line 16 there is an 'if' without a boolean statement. On line 17 there is a boolean statement without specification of what it is for. I think you meant for line 16 and 17 to be together, which is acceptable in Java as the compiler ignores white space, however the curly bracket at the end of line 16 is telling the compiler that they are not together.