Trouble with adding a second parameter to the constructor.

Question

The questions is this: Add a second parameter to the constructor named reactionTime after the existing parameter and use it to initialize the value of the ReactionTime field.

In the first question I constructed public readonly int ReactionTime; and in this questions I am attempting to add another parameter by doing this:

int reactionTime = ReactionTime;

Is this what is meant by adding another parameter or does this mean to add multiple parameters in a parenthesis after "public readonly int ReactionTime;

Trying to grasp what is meant here so any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I know this is probably simple but I want to be sure I have a firm understanding of what is being asked.

Frog.cs

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class Frog
    {
        public readonly int TongueLength;
        public readonly int ReactionTime;
        int reactionTime = ReactionTime;

        public Frog(int tongueLength)
        {
            TongueLength = tongueLength;
        }

        public bool EatFly(int distanceToFly)
        {
            return TongueLength >= distanceToFly;
        }     


    }
}

Answer 1 · 2018-10-29T13:53:39Z

October 29, 2018 1:53pm

You have the right general idea about how to declare your ReactionTime field, but unfortunately, that is not how you add a parameter to your constructor.

You need to go to this part of your code...

public Frog(. . .)

And add this:

public Frog(int tongueLength, int reactionTime)
{
    TongueLength = tongueLength;
    ReactionTime = reactionTime;
}

I understand that constructors can be tricky, so here are a few extra links for you:

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/csharp/csharp_classes.htm https://www.dotnetperls.com/constructor

Good luck with the rest of module!

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