Print Out the Alphabet

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Problem Print out the entire lower case letters of the aplhabet. Use the following guidelines in coming up with a solution: char for printing out the each lowercase letter in the alphabet. Output using System.out.println Comment as you code. To get the next letter use the increment operator.		While and For Loops
Solution When printing out the alphabet you are going to need to know the number of letters to stop the for loop at the right time. //final indicates that this is a constant //Uppercase also indicates that this is a constant final int NUMLETTERS = 26; For printing out the letters you are going to need a char variable. //the initial value of letter will be a since we are printing out the lower case alphabet. char letter = 'a'; Char's and Int's can be manipulated in the same way. For example to get a number + 1, we can just do number++. //our number variable int number = 0; //we are incrementing our number which is exactly the same as number = number + 1 number++; System.out.println("number = " + number); Output: number = 1 We can do exactly the same thing with char's. char letter = 'a'; //get the next letter in the alphabet letter++; System.out.println("letter = " + letter) Output: letter = 'b'
Code Solution Code public class PrintOutTheAlphabet { public static void main(String [ ] args) { final int NUMLETTERS = 26; char letter = 'a'; for(int i = 0; i < NUMLETTERS; i++) { System.out.println(letter); letter++; } } }

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