How to call on the method?

Question

Finally, let's add a method named charge. It should be public and return nothing. When called it should set mBarsCount to the value of the constant you declared in Task 1. What did I do wrong?

GoKart.java

public class GoKart {
  public static final int MAX_BAR = 8;
  private String mColor;
  private int mBarsCount;


  public GoKart(String color) {
    mColor = color;
    mBarsCount = 0;
  }
  public void bar() {
  mBarsCount = MAX_BAR;
  }
  public String getColor() {
    return mColor;
  } 
}

Answer 1 · 2015-01-23T03:33:45Z

January 23, 2015 3:33am

Hello Brandon,

The challenge is asking you to create a public method named "charge" but it seems like your new method is named bar. Rename the bar method to charge and you should be good to go.

I hope this helps.

Answer 2 · 2015-04-07T15:07:43Z

April 7, 2015 3:07pm

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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