title: Java - Nested loops - Having trouble getting any output
body: <p>I came up with this idea to simulate the way a plant grows. The idea is based off of fractal geometry and basically how that explains the repetitions of branches and other structures in plants. I am very much a beginner with programming, though, so I thought I'd test out JUST the basic logic of repeating something. Below is what I wrote in Java.</p>
  
  <pre><code>/*
  Java program:   plant.java
  
  This program runs a loop simulating plant growth.
  The idea is that the plant will continue to have "repeated"
  growth and that it will stop (or slow down to a crawl) at some point, 
  in this case at 100 branches.
  
  */
  
  public class plant
  {
      public static void main (String [] poop)
      {
          int current_growth = 0, limit = 100; //plant growth starts at ZERO and is limited to 100
          String word = "branches";
  
          while (current_growth &gt; 0)
          {
              //here, we are checking to see if the plant has grown just 1 inch.
              //this is important just for grammatical purposes
              if (current_growth == 1)
              {
                  word = "branch"; //this changes the "word" to branch instead of branches
              }
  
  
          System.out.println("Your plant has grown " + current_growth + " " + word);
          //if you put the singular count check here, it doesn't work at all
          current_growth = current_growth + 1;
  
              if (current_growth &gt; 0)
              {
              System.out.println("Your plant has grown " + current_growth + " " + word);
              }
              else
              {
              System.out.println("Your plant will no longer grow.");
              } // end else
          } //end while loop
      } //end main method
  } //end class
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I did the following:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Saved it in my Java depository Changed my depository to point to
  there</li>
  <li>Called/compiled the code with <code>MacBook-Air:Java bdeely$ javac plant.java</code></li>
  <li>Ran the code with <code>MacBook-Air:Java bdeely$ java plant</code></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>The problem was that:
  - There was no output at all. The command prompt just went back empty like <code>MacBook-Air:Java bdeely$</code></p>
  
  <p>I'm fairly certain I am making some kind of huge rookie mistake here. Does anyone know how I can get this code to give me output that repeats the loop from 0 up to 100?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>