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Java Java Objects Creating the MVP Scrabble Tiles

Posted by princess mudyahoto
princess mudyahoto
18,502 Points

scrable tiles

Challenge Task 1 of 2

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 void addTile(char tile) {
    // TODO: Add the tile to tiles

  }

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

}

5 Answers

Zach Freitag
Zach Freitag
20,335 Points
Zach Freitag
Zach Freitag
20,335 Points

Spoiler Alert!!

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 void addTile(char tile) {
       tiles += tile;
  }

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

}

Cheers!

lloyso
lloyso
14,141 Points
lloyso
lloyso
14,141 Points

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 void addTile(char tile) { // TODO: Add the tile to tiles tiles += tile; //this is the same as tiles = tiles + tile;

}

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

}

lloyso
lloyso
14,141 Points
lloyso
lloyso
14,141 Points

/oops watch out for comments/ 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 void addTile(char tile) { // TODO: Add the tile to tiles tiles += tile; //this is the same as tiles = tiles + tile;

}

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

}

lloyso
lloyso
14,141 Points
lloyso
lloyso
14,141 Points

//This is for question 2

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 void addTile(char tile) {

// TODO: Add the tile to tiles

tiles += tile; //this is the same as tiles = tiles + tile;

}

public boolean hasTile(char tile) {

// TODO: Determine if user has the tile passed in

return titles.indexOf(title)>=0;

} }

Muhammad Asif
PLUS
Muhammad Asif
Courses Plus Student 557 Points
Muhammad Asif
Muhammad Asif
Courses Plus Student 557 Points

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 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 return false; }

}