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Java Java Objects Meet Objects Add a Constructor

Posted by Tom Douglas
Tom Douglas
365 Points

On Task 2, I'm getting a message which says "Task 1 is no longer passing". Any idea as to how to get around that?

On Task 2, I'm getting a message which says "Task 1 is no longer passing". This happens when I fill in anything (anything presumably incorrect, that is ) in the constructor. Any idea as to how to get around that?

GoKart.java 
class GoKart {
  private String color = "red";
public GoKart(String color) {

}
  public String getColor() {
    return color;
  }

}

1 Answer

Matthew Caloger
Matthew Caloger
12,903 Points
Matthew Caloger
Matthew Caloger
12,903 Points

The task is asking you to set the "color" value to whatever is passed into the constructor. To do that, you'll put this.color = color; inside of the constructor. It's important to note that when accessing private fields in a class, you refer to them using this.<fieldname>.

Full code:

class GoKart {
  private String color = "red";

  public GoKart(String color) {
    this.color = color;
  }

  public String getColor() {
    return color;
  }
}