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Method Overloading exercise part 2, the prompt is telling me Create a new method named drive that accepts no arguments. It should call the newer drive method passing in a 1 for the default. I made a bit of progress and the check work directive states: In your new drive method make sure you call the drive method that takes an int. Pass it a 1, since thats the default. Well i dont know how to get that part done, it seems anywhere i put a 1 doesnt work. Any direction would be appreciated, ive spent waaaaaay too long on this one.

GoKart.java

class GoKart {
  public static final int MAX_BARS = 8;
  public static final int MAX_LAPS =3;
  private String color;
  private int barCount;
  private int 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;
  }

  public void drive() {
  lapCount = MAX_LAPS;
}
  public void drive (int lapCount) {
  lapCount += lapsDriven;
    barCount -= MAX_BARS;
}
}

Answer 1 · 2023-10-31T11:21:49Z

October 31, 2023 11:21am

Your new drive() method that takes no parameters still needs to call the modified one that does. The default of 1 will simply be passed to it as the parameter. The parameter-less version doesn't need to do anything other than call the revised one.

Also, the revised one you did for task 1 isn't valid, even though the "check work" mechanism said it passed. Issues it has:

the lapsDriven should be increased by the lapCount, not vice-versa
The barCount should be reduced by just the lapCount

Update: I sent a notice to the support staff about the challenge accepting invalid code.

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