[nfbcs] Trivia game help

[Taylor Arndt]

What is in my file is a whole bunch of questions, and i just wanted to
make sure it sort-of worked before i put the rest of the questions in.
I have about 30 questions in this file, each having 4 choices each.

On 4/18/17, Jim Barbour via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I agree with everything Tyler said.  I was in the middle of writing
> something similar when I saw his email.
>
> The other thing I'll point out is that your if statement is...
>
>          if(AnswerEntered=="CorrectAnswer")
>
> So, it's checking your input against the literal string "CorrectAnswer",
> which I assume is not what you want.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Jim
>
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 12:24:28PM -0400, Littlefield, Tyler via nfbcs
> wrote:
>> Taylor:
>> This is one of those code files that I look at and don't really know
>> what to do with. I'm going to give you a lot of information here.
>> First, don't store everything in objects. Objects are quite literally
>> what everything inherits and you're going to run into a lot of issues.
>> If something is a string, make it a string. If it's an array, make it an
>> array.
>> Second, you need to evaluate why there are so many variables, whether or
>> not you need them and most importantly why they're all private static. I
>> recommend creating a separate game object that your main method can load
>> and work with.
>> third, evaluate your logic.
>> Right now you request an answer from the user (without showing the
>> question), read a list of questions, create another question and want an
>> answer to that from what I can tell.
>>
>> So your logic should look like this:
>> 1) read a list of questions and answers and store those somewhere. It
>> might be worth creating a Question class that holds the question and
>> individual answers. Then just store a list of those on your main class,
>> in your main method or in a game class. The latter is preferable.
>> 2) Randomly choose a question from the list, store that question so you
>> have a reference to it and print the question itself.
>> 3) prompt user for answer
>> 4) compare answer with that of the question.
>> HTH,
>>
>>
>> On 4/18/2017 12:03 PM, Taylor Arndt via nfbcs wrote:
>> > Hi, so i am making a trivia game in c#. I have a sample question in an
>> > array, but i can't seem to get so that it will check if it is correct.
>> > It keeps reading the text file and won't check if answer is correct.
>> > Here is my code
>> >  using System;
>> > using System.Collections.Generic;
>> > using System.Linq;
>> > using System.Text;
>> > using System.Threading.Tasks;
>> > using System.IO;
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > namespace Trivia_Game
>> > {
>> >     class Program
>> >     {
>> >         private object questionArray;
>> >         private object stringquestion;
>> >         private object stringcorrectAnswer;
>> >         private object question;
>> >         private object userAnswer;
>> >         private int credit;
>> >         private static int score;
>> >         private static object correctAnswer;
>> >         private static string stringuserAnswer;
>> >         private static bool user;
>> >         private static int i;
>> >         private static string dataFile;
>> >         private static string[] shuffledLines;
>> >         private static object file;
>> >         private static string Key;
>> >         private static object reader;
>> >         private static object Reader;
>> >         private static object streamReader;
>> >         private static FileStream fileStream;
>> >         private static object questionIndex;
>> >
>> >         public static object QuestionArray { get; private set; }
>> >
>> >         static void Main(string[] args)
>> >         {
>> >             Console.WriteLine("Enter your answer");
>> >
>> >
>> >             string[] lines = File.ReadAllLines("questions.txt",
>> > Encoding.UTF8);
>> >
>> >             string AnswerEntered;
>> >             AnswerEntered = Console.ReadLine();
>> >
>> >             foreach (string line in lines)
>> >             {
>> >                 string[] questions = new string[1] { "What was the
>> > version number of ios that introduced voiceover?" };
>> >                 string[] CorrectAnswer = new string[1] { "A"};
>> >                 Console.WriteLine(line);
>> >                 Console.WriteLine("Enter an answer");
>> >
>> >                 AnswerEntered= Console.ReadLine();
>> >
>> >                 string[] IncorrectAnswer=new string [1] {"B"};
>> >
>> >                 if(AnswerEntered=="CorrectAnswer")
>> >
>> >                 {
>> >                     Console.WriteLine("You are correct!");
>> >                 }
>> >
>> >                 Console.ReadLine();
>> >
>> >             }
>> >         }
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >     }
>> >
>> > }
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Take Care,
>> Tyler Littlefield
>>
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Taylor