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Java Java Objects Creating the MVP Scrabble Tiles

Petter Jonasson
Petter Jonasson
808 Points
Posted by Petter Jonasson
Petter Jonasson
808 Points

Need some help here.

I am a bit stuck here. Making this Hangman game inspired me to try to write one of my favorite board games, Scrabble. Can you help me using the skills you've learned from the course thus far? I've modeled a ScrabblePlayer and decided to store their tiles in a String For this first task, modify the addTile method so that it appends the tile that was passed in, to the player's tiles. Practice using the += shortcut method for string concatenation.

ScrabblePlayer.java 
public class ScrabblePlayer {
  // A String representing all of the tiles that this player has
  private String tiles;

  public ScrabblePlayer() {
    tiles = "";
  }

  public String getTiles() {
    return tiles;
  }

  public boolean addTile(char tile) {


  }

  public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
    // TODO: Determine if user has the tile passed in
    return false;
  }

}

2 Answers

Yanuar Prakoso
Yanuar Prakoso
15,196 Points
Yanuar Prakoso
Yanuar Prakoso
15,196 Points

Hi Petter

For the first task you only need to add the char (Character) tile passed to the method addTile into the String tiles. Please remember that String basically just a collection of Characters. You just need to do this:

public boolean addTile(char tile) {
       tiles += tile;
  }

I hope this can help a little. Happy coding and finish all the challenges.

Petter Jonasson
Petter Jonasson
808 Points
Petter Jonasson
Petter Jonasson
808 Points

Thanks for the fast reply. It worked super good exept that instead of it standing boolean is should say void

Yanuar Prakoso
Yanuar Prakoso
15,196 Points
Yanuar Prakoso
Yanuar Prakoso
15,196 Points

Ah yes. I forget to change it to void. Sorry