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Carla Barrios
636 Pointslet's write a simple drive method. It should be public and not return anything. We'll call it GoKart drive a single lap.
In your newly created drive method, increment the new lapsDriven variable by 1. Use the incrementing shorthand to increase lapsDriven.
public void laps() { this.lapsDriven++;
class GoKart {
public static final int MAX_BARS = 8;
private String color;
private int barCount;
private int lapsDriven;
private int GoKartDriveaSingleLap;
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;
}
public void drive() {
this.lapsDriven++;
this.barCount--;
}
public void laps() {
this.lapsDriven++;
}
1 Answer
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Steven Parker
230,688 PointsThe "laps" method seems to have unbalanced braces (missing a closing brace).
But I don't see anything in the instructions about creating a new "laps" method, so it shouldn't be there anyway.