Now add a second construct that takes String as parameter task...

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Hi,

I generally have no idea what I am doing wrong here, I'm no expert in java but I've been getting the ropes quite simply but nothing I appear to put for this answer is working for me. I've looked at a few other forum answers for this task and I've noticed the answers focus on one snippet of code and not the whole picture, not sure about others but this confuses me due to not knowing where the rest of the code is. I read that constructs should have the same name as their class so in the other forums when referring to "public class spaceship e.c.t." I'm lost whether they mean the class or the construct.

I've attached my code to this post and I'm on task 2 where I need to created a 2nd construct with a String parameter to update mType to a different spaceship value.

Many thanks,

Adam

Spaceship.java

public class Spaceship {
  public String mType = "SHUTTLE";

  public Spaceship(String type){
     mType = type; 
  }

  public String getType() {
    return mType;
  }

  public void setType(String type) {
    mType = type;
  }
}

Answer 1 · 2015-04-11T11:34:26Z

April 11, 2015 11:34am

Hi Adam,

For this challenge you are creating two constructors. The first sets the mType variable to the value "SHUTTLE". You've not done that - you have initialised the variable directly.

So, for taslk one you need to create the constructor to set the value as above. That would look like:

public Spaceship() {
    mType = "SHUTTLE";
}

The next task is to create a second constructor that takes a value and assigns it to mType. You've done that correctly in your snippet.

You will end up with two methods called Spaceship in your class. One takes no parameters, as above, and the other is like the one you have written, taking a string parameter.

I hope that clears things up a bit for you.

Steve.

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