Ying sends a program to a colleague for help in debugging it. The following message is returned: "You forgot to initialize the variable for the number of attempts." How should this problem be fixed?

Question

(1 point)
• set the variable to a beginning value
• set the variable to an ending value
• allow the user to input the variable's value
• create a literal value

Answer 1

To fix the problem where the variable for the number of attempts was not initialized, the appropriate action is to:

set the variable to a beginning value

Initializing the variable ensures that it has a defined value before being used in the program.