Challenge Part 1

Hi Alex,

Just to let you know, even if you put the package declaration first your code is still off.

Here's the link to the challenge:

http://teamtreehouse.com/library/java-data-structures/getting-there/class-review-2

The challenge question is:

Add declarations for private member fields for author, title, body, category, and creation date. The date should be of type java.util.Date (make sure you import it).

So there are 5 declarations needed:

package com.example;

import java.util.Date;

public class BlogPost {
  private String mAuthor;
  private String mTitle;
  private String mBody;
  private String mCategory;
  private Date mCreationDate;
}

I'm stuck on part two of the challenge:

Challenge Task 2 of 3

Now add a constructor that accepts author, title, body, category and creation date. In your constructor, initialize the private variables you created in Step 1 using the arguments passed in.

package com.example;

import java.util.Date;

public class BlogPost {
  private String mAuthor;
  private String mTitle;
  private String mBody;
  private String mCategory;
  private Date mCreationDate;

  public BlogPost(String author, String title, String body, String category, Date creationDate) {
    mAuthor = author;
    mTitle = title;
    mBody = body;
    mCategoy = category;
    mCreationDate = creationDate;
  }
}

It's giving me a syntax errors:

./com/example/BlogPost.java:13: error: class, interface, or enum expected public BlogPost(String author, String title, String body, String category, Date creationDate) { ^

./com/example/BlogPost.java:15: error: class, interface, or enum expected mTitle = title; ^

./com/example/BlogPost.java:16: error: class, interface, or enum expected mBody = body; ^

./com/example/BlogPost.java:17: error: class, interface, or enum expected mCategoy = category; ^

./com/example/BlogPost.java:18: error: class, interface, or enum expected mCreationDate = creationDate; ^

./com/example/BlogPost.java:19: error: class, interface, or enum expected } ^

6 errors

Also tried it like this:

package com.example;

import java.util.Date;

public class BlogPost {
  private String mAuthor;
  private String mTitle;
  private String mBody;
  private String mCategory;
  private Date mCreationDate;
}

  public BlogPost(String author, String title, String body, String category, Date creationDate) {
    mAuthor = author;
    mTitle = title;
    mBody = body;
    mCategoy = category;
    mCreationDate = creationDate;
  }

For me this worked

package com.example;
import java.util.Date;


public class BlogPost {
  private String mAuthor;
  private String mTitle;
  private String mBody;
  private String mCategory;
  private Date mCreationDate;

}

Make sure to put you Constructor inside of the BlogPost Class

Hi, for the first task, how come "private Date creationDate;" doesn't need a string? Is it because you are importing?