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Java Java Objects Creating the MVP Scrabble Tiles

Posted by Dearce Goodman
Dearce Goodman
2,331 Points

Not sure where to go on this problem

I'm following what i learned from tutorial but no success.

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

  public ScrabblePlayer() {
    tiles = "";
  }

  public String getTiles() {
    return tiles;
  }

  public void addTile(char tile) {
    // TODO: Add the tile to tiles
    tiles += tile;

  }

  public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
    // TODO: Determine if user has the tile passed in
    boolean isTile = tiles.indexOf('z') != -1;
    if(isTile){
      hits += tile;
    } else {
      misses += tile;
    }
    return true;
  }

}

1 Answer

KRIS NIKOLAISEN
KRIS NIKOLAISEN
54,967 Points

It looks like you are making it more complicated than need be. You only need to return true if the tile is in the tiles field, and false if it isn't. You have the right idea but should check for tile and can simply return this:

return tiles.indexOf(tile) != -1;