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Brian Watt
Courses Plus Student 457 PointsGetting the color from another method
im stuck at on this program, i believe i set it up right but i have two errors, please help
public class GoKart {
public String mColor = "red";
public String getColor();{
return mColor();
}
}
1 Answer
Ryan Duchene
Courses Plus Student 46,022 PointsTwo things. One, you only add semicolons at the end of a statement. The semicolon you have after getColor() is causing an error.
Second, when you're returning a property like mColor, you don't have to put parentheses after it. If you're calling a method, that's when you use the parentheses.
Fixed code:
public class GoKart {
public String mColor = "red";
public String getColor() {
return mColor;
}
}