public class MyJavaStudy
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
     String resolution = "I am halfway, so ";
    
     JavaBook:
     do
     {
         System.out.print(resolution);
         resolution = "I will ";
         continue JavaBook;
     }
     while((new java.util.Random()).nextGaussian() < 10);
    
     System.out.println("not despair");
}
}

Depends. What do you want it to do?

The most obviously suspicious aspect is that you have a label, "JavaBook", which you always continue to within the body of your do..while() loop.

Therefore, you will never execute the while() conditional, so your loop lasts forever, and you'll never see "not despair".


Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

Hi, Nikolai!
Are you the new moderator?
Do you answer my questions?
There's nobody else here, but I will be visiting once a week.

The program was a poem, that should have kept me motivated to finish the booK.

But now you are here!
I still got some two questions without answers posted here...
Will you look at them???

Greetings from Holland!
Frans Lelieveld

You have a fine CV, Nik!

import java.util.Random; // to all students..

public class TryJavaStudy // of Horton's book
{
public static void main(String[] args) // the main thing is..
{
     Random teacher = new Random(); // to stick
     Random student = new Random(); // to it!
    
     String resolution = "You've just begun, so ";
    
     do // beginning Java 2
     {
         System.out.print(resolution);
         resolution = "please "; // continue Java 2
         student.setSeed(teacher.nextLong());
     }
     while(student.nextGaussian() < 2); // to master Java 2
    
     System.out.println("don't despair"); // take Gauss's advice
}
}