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C# C# Objects Encapsulation with Properties Accessor Methods

Posted by Joseph Barnes
Joseph Barnes
1,934 Points

Ok, so i'm doing this test and I can't figure out what i'm supposed to pass through this SetFliesEaten setter method.

There's little to no information in the video about setting up this getter and setter method. in the video, it was calling from another method called MapLocation, we don't have that here. So what am I supposed to attach _numFliesEaten to in the setter method?

Frog.cs 
namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class Frog
    {
        private int _numFliesEaten;

        public int GetNumFliesEaten()
        {
            return _numFliesEaten;
        }

        public void int SetNumFliesEaten(????)
        {
           _numFliesEaten = ????
        }

    }
}

1 Answer

Mark Kastelic
Mark Kastelic
8,147 Points

Hi Joseph,

You're close. Since the setter is void, you don't declare a return type "int." But, you do pass an int variable into the setter. So, replace your ???? with something like "int numFlies" in the method declaration and ???? in the body to numFlies. The challenge doesn't care what the actual parameter name you choose to use, it just checks type and consistency of use in the code.

Hope this helps.