PairTest Program

[dlmagers]

Needing some help with a small problem. I have this program that is not compiling correctly. The instructions are simple which are: The PairTest should prompt the user for the two values, create a Pair object with the values and then print the average, distance, maximum, and minimum of the pair.

In theory, the output should look something like this:

Enter the first number:
5.5
Enter the second number:
3.0
Average: 4.25
Distance: 2.5
Maximum: 5.5
Minimum: 3.0

Here is what I have so far.

import java.lang.Math;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class PairTest
{
    private static double num1;
    private static double num2;
    private static double average = (num1+num2)/2.0;
    private static double distance = Math.abs(num1-num2);
    private static double maximum = Math.max(num1, num2);
    private static double minimum = Math.min(num1, num2);
    private static Scanner in;


    public static void main(String args[])
    {

    in = new Scanner(System.in); 

        System.out.println("Please enter a value for the first number: ");
        num1 = in.nextDouble();

        System.out.println("Please enter a value for the second number: ");
        num2 = in.nextDouble();


    System.out.println("Average: " + average);
    System.out.println("Distance: " + distance);
    System.out.println("Maximum Number: " + maximum);
    System.out.println("Minimum Number: " + minimum);

    }
  }   
}

Would someone be so kind to explain to me what I am doing wrong? I would greatly appreciate it.

The error that it is giving me is:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problem: 

    at PairTest.main(PairTest.java:15)

Thank you.

[milil]

Problem is because you do this: num1 = null; num2 = null; and you are calculating average with two null's you can't do that.

You need to do like this:

    import java.lang.Math;
    import java.util.Scanner;
    public class PairTest
    {
    private static double num1;
    private static double num2;
    private static double average;
    private static double distance;
    private static double maximum;
    private static double minimum;
    private static Scanner in;
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
    in = new Scanner(System.in);
    System.out.println("Please enter a value for the first number: ");
    num1 = in.nextDouble();
    System.out.println("Please enter a value for the second number: ");
    num2 = in.nextDouble();

    average = (num1+num2)/2.0;
    distance = Math.abs(num1-num2);
    maximum = Math.max(num1, num2);
    minimum = Math.min(num1, num2);

    System.out.println("Average: " + average);
    System.out.println("Distance: " + distance);
    System.out.println("Maximum Number: " + maximum);
    System.out.println("Minimum Number: " + minimum);
    }
    }
    }

So you declare average as double and you can't know num 1 and num2 so you need to read values from scaner and then calculate it when you get num1 and num2...

[dlmagers]

That totally makes sense. But just a question I thought you could do calculations in the area where you initialize the variables?

[JamesCherrill]

You can do calculations when initialising variables, but only using values that are known at the time, eg
int a = 3;
int b = a+1;