im confused on how we are suppose to add in the laps

Question

im confused

GoKart.java

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

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

  public String getColor() {
    return mColor;
  }


  public void drive(int laps) {
    // Other driving code omitted for clarity purposes
    mBarsCount -= laps;
  }
  public void drive() {
   drive(MAX_BARS);
  }

  public void charge() {
    while (!isFullyCharged()) {
      mBarsCount++;
    }
  }

  public boolean isBatteryEmpty() {
    return mBarsCount == 0;
  }

  public boolean isFullyCharged() {
    return mBarsCount == MAX_BARS;
  }


}

Answer 1 · 2015-02-27T01:23:07Z

February 27, 2015 1:23am

Hello, this challanege is asking you to pretty much just make another method that doesn't require an argument of how many laps to drive.

Since we already have a drive method it's pretty easy to set up.

1) create a new method drive that takes no arguments. so it should be drive().

2) once the method is complete make the body of the method perform the drive method taking away one lap.

3) what this does is ensure that if a user just wants to drive one lap then you can call your newly created drive method, to just take away one lap as an assumption without telling it to.

It should look something like this.

  public void drive() {
    drive(1);
  }

Let me know if this helps or if I need to further clarify something

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im confused on how we are suppose to add in the laps

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