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Java Java Objects (Retired) Harnessing the Power of Objects Methods and Constants

Posted by Tim McKyer
Tim McKyer
10,989 Points

Anybody know where I went wrong here?

Not quite sure where I went wrong here lol a little help would be greatly appreciated. :)

GoKart.java 
public class GoKart {
  private String mColor;
  public static final int MAX_BARS = 8;
  private int mBarsCount;

  public GoKart(String color) {
    mColor = color;
    mBarsCount = 0;
  }

  public String getColor() {
    return mColor;
  } 

  public void charge() {
    mBarsCount = MAX_BARS;
}

2 Answers

Craig Lovell
Craig Lovell
5,752 Points

Looks like your charge() method is missing its closing curly brace.

Tim McKyer
Tim McKyer
10,989 Points

I cannot believe I missed that lol thanks for the help man haha I've been up too late xD

Craig Lovell
Craig Lovell
5,752 Points

Its fine man, it happens to everyone eventually.

Tim McKyer
Tim McKyer
10,989 Points

Cool man are you a Mobile developer?

Craig Lovell
Craig Lovell
5,752 Points
Craig Lovell
Craig Lovell
5,752 Points

No, but I am learning ios and swift right now on this website. But, I already have a lot of experience with Java from working with it in collage (as well as c, and c++). Once you get thing hang of a few c style languages its pretty easy to pick up new ones.

Tim McKyer
Tim McKyer
10,989 Points

Nice, I wish I started off that way I hear people say if you can code in C and C++ you can code in just about anything. But any advice on how to get a good understanding of java for someone who is looking to get into android development?

Craig Lovell
Craig Lovell
5,752 Points

It seems like your on the right track. Java is similar in a lot of ways to C, so if you are able to get a good understanding of that you should be able to learn other languages pretty easily. However I still think learning C is valuable because it gives you greater insight into why things are done certain ways. For example if you have ever wondered why arrays start at the index of 0, then learning C will give you a better insight since you can add to an array pointer to move to the next address in memory.

Like: int numbers[] = {1,2,3,4}; printf("The number %i\n, *(numbers + 2)); // will print 3

You can see that *(numbers + 2) is a lot like numbers[2]. Where 2 is an offset as far as the number of address spaces to move.

Hopefully I didn't just confuse you, but if you learn a language like C then you will learn little things like that. However learning Java will definitely take you a long ways. So just keep at it. It will eventually all start to make sense.

Tim McKyer
Tim McKyer
10,989 Points

I see what you are saying there thanks for the help man have a good one.