Harnessing the Power of Objects, completely stuck

Question

I for the life of me cannot get it to work, tells me to make mBarCount public, if i do it tells me to make it unchangable.

GoKart.java

public class GoKart {
  public final int MAX_BARS = 8;
  private String mColor;
  private int mBarCount;

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

  public String getColor() {
    return mColor;
  } 
}

Answer 1 · 2015-01-21T01:43:05Z

January 21, 2015 1:43am

Hey Charles, so I noticed you have forgotten to make your member variable, MAX_BARS static. From what I understand, this lets you access it from the class. Thus, try changing:

public final int MAX_BARS = 8;

to

public static final int MAX_BARS = 8;

Another Thing, don't know if it affects it but it asks for the specific name, "mBarsCount." So I'd recommend changing "mBarCount" to "mBarsCount" for this challenge.

I hope this helps.

Answer 2 · 2015-04-07T15:09:04Z

April 7, 2015 3:09pm

I would suggest starting the challenge over. Then, look at this code for your example to follow. Connecting the challenge questions to the material covered in the lesson may be a good strategy throughout the course:

public class PezDispenser {
  public static final int MAX_PEZ = 12;
  private String mCharacterName;
  private int mPezCount;

  public PezDispenser(String characterName) {
    mCharacterName = characterName;
    mPezCount = 0;
  }

  public void load() {
    mPezCount = MAX_PEZ; 
  }

  public String getCharacterName() {
    return mCharacterName;
  }
}

Instead of MAX_PEZ, you are creating MAX_BARS
Instead of mPezCount, you are creating mBarsCount
Instead of a load method, you are creating a charge method

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