Assignemnt #66: Hi and Lo Guesses with While Loops

Code

 /// Name: Sean Harrison
    /// Period: 7
    /// Program name: Hi and Lo guesses with While Loops
    /// File Name: HiLoWhileLoop.java
    /// Date Finished: 12/10/2015
    
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.Random;
public class HiLoWhileLoop
{
    public static void main( String[] args )
    {
        int guess, guessCounter, number, maxTries;
        maxTries = 7;
        Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
        Random r = new Random();
        number = 1 + r.nextInt(100);
        guessCounter = 0;
        
        
        System.out.println( "I'm thinking of a number between 1-100. You have 7 guesses to get it correct " );
        System.out.print( "First guess : " );
        guess = keyboard.nextInt();
        guessCounter++;
        
        while ( guess != number && guessCounter < maxTries )
            {
                if ( number <  guess )
                {
                    guessCounter++;
                    System.out.println( " The number you choose was too high " );
                    System.out.println( " Your guess # is " + guessCounter  );
                    guess = keyboard.nextInt();
                }
                else if ( number > guess )
                {
                    guessCounter++;
                    System.out.println( " The number you choose was too low " );
                    System.out.println( " Your guess # is " + guessCounter );
                    guess = keyboard.nextInt();
                }
            }
                if ( guess == number && guessCounter < maxTries )
                {
                    System.out.println ( "Nice job you correctly guessed the random number! " );
                }
                else if ( guess != number && guessCounter >= maxTries )
                {
                    System.out.println( " You have run out of tries to correctly guess the number sorry. " );
                }
            }
        }
 

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