Re: "WHILE" Loops

"Lew" <lew@lewscanon.com> wrote in message
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| Matt Humphrey wrote:
| > "acilelaure" <bastian.tweddell@googlemail.com> wrote in message
| > news:1191917257.604154.161580@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com...
| > | On 9 Okt., 09:54, ericcc <ewol...@gmail.com> wrote:
| > | > "Use WHILE. Write an application that calculates the product of the
| > | > odd integers from 1 to 15 and then displays the result."
| > | >
| > | > How would I do this?
| > | doing your homework ;-)
| > |
| > | int i=3;
| > | int e=1;
| > | while(i<=15) {
| > | if( i%2 == 0 )
| > | e*=i;
| > | i++;
| > | }
| > | System.out.println(e);
| >
| > What an interesting, subtle answer. Because the OP doesn't understand
the
| > problem, he'll never find the bug in it.
|
| But even with that lack of understanding, if they run the example they
will
| quickly find out that it gives the wrong answer. They just won't know
why.

Having taught Computer Science at a university, it's my experience that the
student will simply take the output as correct without crosschecking it.