mcalex, Michèle, Aishwarya & all, > ie your first option. The instruction is a tad ambiguous. You don't > remove character 2 from the string, and leave characters 1, 3, 4 etc, > which is a technically valid interpretation of the instruction.
I quite agree. Being a native English, okay American, speaker I too interpreted the instructions to come up with "Removing the second character from each name and displaying the new names." I see that I focused my attention mainly on the "taking the 2nd character" and less on the "new first name". Perhaps, due to the discussion here, a change to the instructions may be to state (or something like this) "It creates a new first name by using the 2nd character of each String from the array". Note the word change of "using" instead of "taking". Cheers to all! IMHO, Eric BTW, I've resubmitted my homework based on this thread :) -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaprogrammingwithpassion?hl=en
