I'm not understanding this task, Can someone explain this to me.

Hi there,

You want to iterate over each character in the tiles string. To do this, convert it to an array using the toCharArray() method on the tiles string. Next, create a for loop to iterate over each element of that array. Within the loop, you will pull out each element in turn and store that in a temporary, local variable; I called it tile. On each loop, see if tile is equal to char, the letter passed into this method. If they are the same, add one to a counter variable. At the top of the method, declare and initialise this int variable.

Once the loop has completed, return the count variable (your method returns an int) and that should be it! My code looks like:

  public int getCountOfLetter(char letter){
    int count = 0;                         // create & init a counter
    for(char tile: tiles.toCharArray()){   // convert to array and create a local var & loop
      if(tile == letter){                  // compare the char to tile
        count++;                           // increment if equal
      }
    }
    return count;                          // return the result
  }

I hope that makes sense!

Steve.