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Question

I was trying to make a similar program to PezDispenser.java but instead of declaring the name in the program i wanted the user to have that option. So i imported the Scaner for this task. What am in doing wrong?
import java.util.Scanner;
public class Test2 {
public static void main(String[] args) {
  Scanner bubbleName = new Scanner(System.in);
  System.out.println ("Hi! What Bubble Head do you want?");
  String bubbleAnswer = bubbleName.nextLine();
  BubbleHead bubbleHead = new BubbleHead(bubbleAnswer);
  System.out.println("Your Bubble Head is" + bubbleHead.getBubbleName());
  }
}
class BubbleHead {
 final private String mBubbleName;
  public BubbleHead(String headName) {
  headName  = this.bubbleName;
  }
  public String getBubbleName() {
  return headName;
  }
}
./BubbleHead.java:13: error: cannot find symbol
   return headName;
               ^
    symbol:   variable headName
    location: class BubbleHead
1 error

andren · Accepted Answer

There are a couple of issues in the BubbleHead class.
In the constructor you set headName which is the parameter that is passed in to a field variable called bubbleName. This is wrong both in the sense that it is the opposite of what you want to do (you want to set the field variable equal to the parameter) and in the sense that bubbleName is not the right name for the field variable. In your class you have called the name field variable mBubbleName.
In the getBubbleName you return a variable which does not exist, I assume you intended to return mBubbleName.
If you fix the order and naming of the variables in the contructor and fix the name of the variable used in the getter method like this:
```Java
class BubbleHead {
final private String mBubbleName;

public BubbleHead(String headName) {
    mBubbleName = headName;
}

public String getBubbleName() {
    return mBubbleName;
}
}
```
Then your code should work. Note that I also removed the "this" keyword, that is only needed when the field variable and parameter share the same name.

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