How to make timer/delay?

Question

Does anyone know how to make a delay function? Like a function that 'pauses' the system/proccess for a few second before resuming.
For example :

Console.WriteLine("Please wait 3second");
//Insert a delay/timer here that activates the next line of code after 3seconds

Console.WriteLine("You just wasted 3seconds of your life! ");

(or does even SoloLearn have the function in their programming tool in the first place)

Answer 1

Ok thanks. Now I figured out the problem. SoloLearn programme doesn't fully support Thread.Sleep programe

Answer 2

using System.Threading;

Thread.Sleep(interval);

Answer 3

using System;
using System.Threading;

namespace std
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.WriteLine("Please wait 3second");
Thread.Sleep(3000);
Console.WriteLine("You just wasted 3seconds of your life! ");
}
}
}

Answer 4

Note that the interval is in milliseconds

Answer 5

What I meant was that I wanted the system to print out text "a" for the user to see first, then after a few seconds it will print out text b

Answer 6

I created a timer example in javascript using the setInterval function. You can check it out here: https://code.sololearn.com/WkvkWFcUN9bh

Edit: I went through and commented majority of the js code to make it easier to understand for those curious on how to make a timer of their own.

Answer 7

Use delay(1000);
For C++
library-》process.h
language-》c++
*u can change value to increase time in seconds

Answer 8

Why not? It works fine for me. Check my code with multithreading. Playground has an executuon tumeout, so your program should work less then 3 seconds.

Answer 9

for the primitive method, you can create a really long for loop

for(int i = 0; i < 1000000; i++){}

the loop does nothing but burning some cpu cycles.

pretty primitive, but works in every language.

Answer 10

If you familiar with Java you can use thread and use threads. Sleep() then specify the time you want before second value is displayed

Answer 11

how can i insert a delay in ruby?

Answer 12

Python: from time import sleep
sleep (3000)

Answer 13

how about delay in c++?? I need to know too

Answer 14

use sleep function

Answer 15

use thread