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Java Java Objects Creating the MVP Scrabble Tiles

hasTile

A little stuck at this point. I feel like I am supposed to pass in a boolean. But I'm not quite sure how to go about it. I was pretty sure with the answer that I had that an if or an else statement wasn't necessary. The hints that it gives are just boggling my mind even farther.

ScrabblePlayer.java
public class ScrabblePlayer {
  // A String representing all of the tiles that this player has
  private String tiles;

  public ScrabblePlayer() {
    tiles = "";
  }

  public String getTiles() {
    return tiles;
  }

  public void addTile(char tile) {
    // TODO: Add the tile to tiles
    tiles += 't';
  }

  public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
    // TODO: Determine if user has the tile passed in
    return tiles.indexOf(tile) >= 0;
  }

}

2 Answers

Jennifer Nordell
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Jennifer Nordell
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Hi there, Tim Miller! You're doing fantastic! Actually, you have the second step correct, which is arguably the more difficult of the two. It's the first step that you got a little off. I'm not sure if the checker is a little odd or if you happened to guess what it was adding.

You have this:

  public void addTile(char tile) {
    // TODO: Add the tile to tiles
    tiles += 't';
  }

So let's say I call addTile("z") it's going to take the tiles string and append a 't' to it. Wait. Why a 't'? :smiley: I would like for it to append the tile I sent in!

What you meant to do was append whatever character we happen to send in.

  public void addTile(char tile) {  // tile is our parameter that catches what we send in
    // TODO: Add the tile to tiles
    tiles += tile;  // add what we sent in to the tiles
  }

Hope this helps! :sparkles:

You are simply an inspiration Jen. Thank you again