Array from user input

[stupidnewb]

I am having some trouble getting a prompt to print out so a user can know what information to type. I have a student class that has a scanner as a constructor.

public Person(Scanner in)
    {
        this.firstName = in.nextLine();
        this.lastName = in.nextLine();
        this.uid = in.next();
        this.phone = in.next();
    }

public Student(Scanner in)
    {
        super(in);
        this.credits = in.nextInt();
        this.points = in.nextInt();
    }

I also have a database class creates a menu for the user to pick the option to add a student to the array. Defining the addStudent method the menu calls is where I am having problems.

public void addStudent()
    {    
        if(records[numStudents] == null)
        {
            System.out.print("Enter the student's first name: ");
            Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
            records[numStudents] = new Student(in);
            numStudents++;
        }
        else if(numStudents >= capacity)
        {
            System.out.println("The student database is full.");
        }
    }

I can either get all the prompt's to print at once or not at all. If I include them in a loop I won't be able to get them to say different things.

[JosAH]

After printing the prompt, flush() the stream, e.g.

System.out.print("Enter your age: ");
System.out.flush();
 

kind regards,

Jos

[stupidnewb]

It still prints the lines all at once.

public void addStudent()
    {    
        if(records[numStudents] == null)
        {
            System.out.print("Enter the student's first name: ");
            System.out.flush();
            System.out.print("Enter the student's last name: ");
            System.out.flush();
            Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
            records[numStudents] = new Student(in);
            numStudents++;
        }
        else if(numStudents >= capacity)
        {
            System.out.println("The student database is full.");
        }
    }
 

[r035198x]

Well you are just printing them one after the other.
You need to allow the user to type something to the prompt and to read what has been typed using the nextXXX methods.