Please help: Getting 'cannot find symbol' on attempting following action from jshell: Game game = new Game("shivam");

Hi Steve,

I figured out, i was capitalizing char due to which the class game.java was not compiling. now it works fine. I hail your response. it actually gave me clue that i should go back at the root from where i just started, so i tried to compile the class first, that returned with an error pointing out to that particular chunk of code. Many Thanks

Thank you Steve for your response in a quick time Yea I did so, firstly I opened the Game.java file from jconsole: /open Game.java

I am new to treehouse, trying to figure out how to post code online. I think that would help you better understand the issue. Could you guide me how to post code over here.

  class Game {
  private String answer;
  private String hits;
  private String misses;

  public Game(String answer){
    this.answer = answer;
    hits = "";
    misses = "";
  }

  public boolean applyGuess(Char letter) {
    boolean isHit = answer.indexOf(letter) != -1;
    if (isHit) {
      hits += letter;
    } else {
      misses += letter;
    }
    return isHit;
  }
}
// comment

I'll add some code to your comment - if you click 'edit' you'll see what I did to make it work.

Thanks again, I have inserted the code with Game.java file. Will it help?

OK - so what are you trying to do?

Are you entering your line of code (in the title of this thread) in the workspace console, or the REPL?

I was running this code in the console at bottom of workspace in jshell. I was trying to instantiate Game class by calling constructor from console giving it a value of "Shivam", to which the error occurred, I wanted to check whether the code meets the logic for hits and misses. I would had checked for a letter whether or not it is contained in the value I passed but i got stuck due to error. I was just trying to follow along the instructor

Hi Mark,

Comments within code can go anywhere - they are syntactically irrelevant as they are not interpreted or compiled. They can't cause syntax errors.

Steve.