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Java Java Objects (Retired) Creating the MVP Strings and Chars

Posted by Gabriel E
Gabriel E
8,916 Points

Not sure about hasTile method on challenge

Hi there,

On this challenge, I'm supposed to return true if scrabble hand has the tile, and false if it doesn't. Not quite sure what I'm doing wrong. Here's my code. Thanks for the help!

ScrabblePlayer.java 
public class ScrabblePlayer {
    private String mHand;

    public ScrabblePlayer() {
        mHand = "";
    }

    public String getHand() {   
       return mHand;
    }

    public void addTile(char tile) {
      boolean hasTile = mHand.indexOf(tile) >= 0;
      mHand += tile;
        // Adds the tile to the hand of the player

    }

    public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
     if (isHit) {
     hasTile += tile;
     return true;
   } else {
     hasTile -= tile;
     return false;
    } 
     return hasTile;
    }
}

1 Answer

rtholen
rtholen
Courses Plus Student 11,859 Points

Assuming this is all of your code. Then a couple of hints:

  1. Take a look at isHit. This is not defined or set anywhere.
  2. You have a local variable hasTile and a function hasTile() and are possibly confusing the two.
  3. The function hasTile() should be doing what you appear to be trying to do in the first line of addTile(), while the function addTile() should only be adding tiles to the mHand String. Each function should accomplish one task.