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Java

Posted by David Hinton
David Hinton
3,070 Points

Creating Classes | Java Objects

Hi I am on the creating Classes section on Java Objects and have hit a problem.

This is my error :

Example.java:8: error: cannot find symbol
dispenser.mCharacterName());
^
symbol: method mCharacterName()
location: variable dispenser of type PezDispenser
1 error

This is my code:

public class Example {

public static void main(String[] args) {
    // Your amazing code goes here...
  System.out.println("We are making a pez dispenser."); 
  PezDispenser dispenser = new PezDispenser();
  System.out.printf("The dispenser Character is %s\n",
                    dispenser.mCharacterName());

} }

And my Dispenser file code:

public class PezDispenser{ public String mcCharacterName = "Yoda"; }

1 Answer

Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points
Jeremy Hill
Jeremy Hill
29,567 Points

I would do your class PezDispenser like this:

public class PezDispenser{
  private String name = "Yoda";
  public String mcCharacterName(){
     return name;
  }
}

You can do it a number of ways but watch your spelling- I noticed that your mcCharacterName() was missing a 'c' in your printf statement.