problem with symbol

Question

please look at row 7

Example.java

public class Example { 
  private String mKart = new String ("red");
  public String getColor() {  
    return mKart; }
  public static void main(String[] args)  {  
        System.out.println("We are going to create a GoKart");
      System.out.printf("The color is %s.", getColor);
                        };
}

Answer 1 · 2015-03-23T02:41:27Z

March 23, 2015 2:41am

Hey there,

I think the trouble with this first is that you are creating a new method for getColor, this is already defined in the GoKart class, so there's no need to recreate it.

It looks like you also created the kart as a String object, it's really part of the GoKart object.

So the creation code would look something like this

GoKart blueKart = new GoKart("blue");

This would create a new GoKart object with the color blue, in the next step it would ask me to get the color, thankfully. There's an method in the GoKart class for that.

In the next object it would be asking us to print a formatted String from the System class using the getColor() method.

This would look like

System.out.printf("The color is %s", blueKart.getColor());

all together this challenge code should look similar to

public class Example {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("We are going to create a GoKart");
      GoKart blueKart = new GoKart("blue");
     System.out.printf("The color is %s", blueKart.getColor());
    }
}

Though of course you can change the color to anything you want.

Thanks let me know if this doesn't help.

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