Totally stuck on Incrementing challenge for GoKart Code

Hi Gabriel,

1) Your current code asks the compiler to attempt to execute if and while statements as if they are self-contained methods. Java syntax does not consider them to be, so we know we'll want to include those kinds of statements inside of a method, rather than write them as if they are methods themselves.

2) The challenge asks us to alter the charge method; thus, our new code will go within that method.

3) We do not need an if statement at all, but we do need a while statement. The reason for the while statement is that we want the increment statement to run until the GoKart is fully charged (a way to do this is by having code that increases the GoKart's charge until the boolean isFullyCharged is true.) Once that object is fully charged, we can stop running that statement. The while test will no longer pass when the GoKart is fully charged, so the new charge method code that we are adding will stop running then, right when we need it to.

public class GoKart {
  public static final int MAX_ENERGY_BARS = 8;
  private String mColor;
  private int mBarsCount;

  public GoKart(String color) {
    mColor = color;
    mBarsCount = 0;
  }

  public String getColor() {
    return mColor;
  }

  public void charge() {
    mBarsCount = MAX_ENERGY_BARS;

    while (!isFullyCharged()) {
      mBarsCount++;
    }
  }

  public boolean isBatteryEmpty() {
    return mBarsCount == 0;
  }

  public boolean isFullyCharged() {
    return mBarsCount == MAX_ENERGY_BARS;
  }
}

Hope this helps!

Thank you very much for the help CJ, but when I copied and pasted the code you sent to me, it still showed me a long list of syntaxes. I'm still a bit confused. Would you have any suggestions?