Math.random help! please

[kaka123]

hey im new to java and im trying to get stars to appear randomly accross the sky and i cant fugure out how to use the functions
for (a=1;a<1000;a=a +10)
{
g.fillOval(0+a, 2,6,6);


}
thats what i have now and the stars go stright accross teh sky..if nothing else then i would just line the stars up in teh sky but no matter how big i make my for loop, the starts just go one line stright accross the top...
id like stars(ovals) from 0,350

[r035198x]

hey im new to java and im trying to get stars to appear randomly accross the sky and i cant fugure out how to use the functions
for (a=1;a<1000;a=a +10)
{
g.fillOval(0+a, 2,6,6);


}
thats what i have now and the stars go stright accross teh sky..if nothing else then i would just line the stars up in teh sky but no matter how big i make my for loop, the starts just go one line stright accross the top...
id like stars(ovals) from 0,350

Well, you haven't used Math.random in your loop at all so you shouldn't really expect to get random output.

[kaka123]

yea i know im sorry...i was just showing you my loop with the stars goin accros the sky..i didnt use math.random beacuse i dont know how to use it..thus me asking the question

[r035198x]

yea i know im sorry...i was just showing you my loop with the stars goin accros the sky..i didnt use math.random beacuse i dont know how to use it..thus me asking the question

A good source of information about Java classes and their methods is the API specs. See the entry for Math.random here.
Also have a look at the specs for the java.util.Rando m class