I dont know why I can not create a method

Question

I did public drive(){ }

and it said add a new public drive method

GoKart.java

class GoKart {
  public static final int MAX_BARS = 8;
  private int lapsDriven;
  private String color;
  private int barCount;

  public drive(){
    lapsDriven = 0;
    ++lapsDriven;
  }

  public GoKart(String color) {
    this.color = color;
  }

  public String getColor() {
    return color;
  }

  public void charge() {
    barCount = MAX_BARS;
  }

  public boolean isBatteryEmpty() {
    return barCount == 0;
  }

  public boolean isFullyCharged() {
    return MAX_BARS == barCount;
  }
}

Answer 1 · 2017-02-21T16:08:49Z

February 21, 2017 4:08pm

You have:

public drive(){
  lapsDriven = 0;
  ++lapsDriven;
}

You're missing the return type. In this case, the desired return type is... nothing, therefor the function return type should be void.

Try adding the void keyword between public and drive in your function declaration.

Answer 2 · 2017-02-21T16:14:37Z

February 21, 2017 4:14pm

public void drive (){
lapsDriven++;
}

You initialize the lapsDriven variable outside of the method, and since the method is not returning anything you want to make it void.

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I dont know why I can not create a method

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