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Java Java Objects Creating the MVP Scrabble Tiles

Posted by Nate Maroof
Nate Maroof
1,681 Points

Very confused by the method that the instructor wishes me to use

I have been trying to solve this for over an hour. I have looked back at the video many times. I have done what he did. What am I doing wrong here?

ScrabblePlayer.java 
public class ScrabblePlayer {
  // A String representing all of the tiles that this player has
  private String tiles;

  public ScrabblePlayer() {
    tiles = "";
  }

  public String getTiles() {
    return tiles;
  }

  public void addTile(char tile) {
    // TODO: Add the tile to tiles
    tiles += tile; 

  }

  public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
    // TODO: Determine if user has the tile passed in
    boolean isATile = tiles.indexOf(tile) != -1;

    if (isATile) {
      return true;
    }

    else {
      return false;
    }

  }

}

1 Answer

Tonnie Fanadez
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Tonnie Fanadez
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Tonnie Fanadez
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Tonnie Fanadez
UX Design Techdegree Graduate 22,796 Points

Hello Nate Maroof

Sure thing you can get lost and feel confused but when you do don't hesitate to ask.

This is how I approached the problem. I first created a boolean hasLetter and set it to false. I then went for the for-loop to iterate through the characters contained inside tiles. I used String.toCharArray().length method to convert the tiles to an array of characters and get the number of letters.

Lastly, I used String.indexOf( char) which returns -1 if the character is not found, if character is found, it returns a number that is greater or equal to zero.

 public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
    // TODO: Determine if user has the tile passed in

    boolean hasLetter = false;
    for(int i =0; i<tiles.toCharArray().length; i++){

   hasLetter = ( tiles.indexOf(tile) >=0);

    }
    return hasLetter;

Hope this will help you.

Nate Maroof
Nate Maroof
1,681 Points

Thank you so much!!