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Java

Posted by Jennifer Elliott
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Jennifer Elliott
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 2,183 Points

How to pass an argument into a constructor.

Hello,

In my code below (Task 2 of 3) I'm trying to set the private field color to the value of the argument in the constructor. However, I'm receiving an error saying that step 1 is no longer passing once I attempt to do step 2.

Step 2: *** Java *** public GoKart (String color) { private color = this.color; }

Link to code challenge: https://teamtreehouse.com/library/java-objects-2/meet-objects/add-a-constructor

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,552 Points
andren
andren
28,552 Points

There are two issues with your code:

  1. Access modifier (public, private, etc) cannot be used within methods/constructors.

  2. this.color is the field variable, while color is the parameter. So your assignment is doing the opposite of what it should be.

If you fix those two issues like this:

public GoKart (String color) {
    this.color = color; // Removed private, and reversed order of variables
}

Then your code will work.