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C# C# Objects Encapsulation with Properties Accessor Methods

blake littleton
blake littleton
14,255 Points
Posted by blake littleton
blake littleton
14,255 Points

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong

I thought I understood the getter and setter concept. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here.

Frog.cs 
namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class Frog
    {
        private int _numFliesEaten;

          private int _numFliesEaten;
    }
     public GetNumFliesEaten()
     {
        return _numFliesEaten;
     }

     public void SetNumFliesEaten(int value)
     {
        _numFliesEaten=value;
     }
}

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

You seem to grasp the basic concepts just fine, but there are three issues with your code:

  1. You have added the getter and setter outside the body of the class, rather than inside where it belongs.

  2. You have forgotten to add a return type to the GetNumFliesEaten getter method.

  3. You have also added the _numFliesEaten field twice. You should only define it once.

If you move the methods inside the body (within the {} brackets) of the class, add a return type to GetNumFliesEaten, and remove the duplicate _numFliesEaten field then your code will work fine.