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7,421 PointsMake sure you add a private String field to the User class named firstName...
I thought using
"this.firstName = firstName; " in User.java
makes the field private..
but ...I keep on getting this error message.
public class User {
// TODO: add private fields for firstName and lastName
public User(String firstName, String lastName) {
// TODO: set and add the private fields
this.firstName = firstName;
this.lastName = lastName;
}
public String getFirstName () {
return firstName;
}
public String getLastName() {
return lastName;
}
// TODO: add getters for firstName and lastName
}
[MOD: edited code out for brevity - srh]
1 Answer
Steve Hunter
57,712 PointsHi there,
At the top of the User
class where the TODO
comment is, you want to declare two private
member variables that are of type String
; the challenge tells you their names.
The addition of this
inside the constructor doesn't make them private
. And you can't assign anything to this.firstName
unless the class has a member variable called firstName
.
It would look like this:
public class User {
// TODO: add private fields for firstName and lastName
private String firstName;
private String lastName;
Let me know how you get on.
Steve.