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Java Java Objects (Retired) Creating the MVP Remaining Characters

Posted by MUZ140584 Heredity Mbundire
MUZ140584 Heredity Mbundire
4,979 Points

am stuck on this challenge may you pliz help

Welcome to a little Twitter-like application. Here I'm modeling a Tweet. It has text which is the body of the tweet. All Tweets have a maximum character limit of 140 characters.

Please add a new constant to store the maximum number of characters allowed which is 140. Use the proper access level modifiers to make it unchangeable and accessible right off of the class. Follow the proper naming convention.

Tweet.java 
public int getTileCount(char letter);
    int tileCount = 0;
    for(char tile : mHand.toCharArray());
      if(mHand.indexOf(tile) >= 0);
        tileCount++;
      }
    return tileCount;
}}

5 Answers

Jess Sanders
Jess Sanders
12,086 Points
Jess Sanders
Jess Sanders
12,086 Points

Try to connect the challenge tasks with the lesson tasks. It's a good strategy throughout the course.

public static final int MAX_MISSES = 7;


public int getRemainingTries() {
    return MAX_MISSES - mMisses.length();
  }
  • Instead of MAX_MISSES, you are making MAX_CHARS
  • Instead of getRemainingTries, you are making getRemainingChars
nobodyinhere
nobodyinhere
3,418 Points
nobodyinhere
nobodyinhere
3,418 Points

You need to add a constant field named "int static final MAX_VALUE = 140;" and you have to add this in your if else codes to confirm if it is lower than 140 chars or not.

simon bao
simon bao
5,522 Points
simon bao
simon bao
5,522 Points 
public class Tweet {
  private String mText;
  public static final int MAX_LENGTH = 140;

  public Tweet(String text) {
    while(text.length() < MAX_LENGTH){
    mText = text;
    }
  }

  public String getText() {
    return mText;
  }

}

This is what I did and it worked, my code is rather simple.

chase singhofen
chase singhofen
3,811 Points
chase singhofen
chase singhofen
3,811 Points

this worked for me:

public class Tweet { private String mText; public static final int MAX_CHARS = 140; //chg to CHARS

i did like jess said and replaced LENGTH with CHARS everywhere in program. the video is similar. at first i didnt know where to put my constant, but i did know i needed a public static final b/c we dont want to chg anything

public Tweet(String text) { while(text.length() < MAX_CHARS){ //chg to CHARS mText = text; } }

public String getText() { return mText; } }//end of program

Prince Chinyadza
Prince Chinyadza
6,333 Points
Prince Chinyadza
Prince Chinyadza
6,333 Points

public class Tweet { private String mtext; public static final int MAX_CHARS = 140;

public Tweet(String text) { while(text.length() < MAX_LENGTH){ mText = text; } } public String getText() { return mtext; }

public void setText(String text) { this.text = text; } }