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Ethan Thorne
704 PointsStuck on step 2 of the Challenge!
Just want to express my appreciation for these Java tutorials, and of course to you Craig for putting in the effort to help us newbies. :D
Just as the title explains, I'm stumped and have no idea where to start, a nudge in the right direction would be appreciated!
Cheers.
1 Answer
Brendan Whiting
Front End Web Development Techdegree Graduate 84,735 PointsSo you're defining a new method. It's going to be similar to the method that's already in there, "getText()".
You'll need to start with a keyword for if it's public or private, then a keyword for the return value, then the name of the method followed by a couple parentheses. Then inside a set of curly braces, you'll write some code to have it calculate and return the number of remaining characters available for the tweet. So you'll use the new constant you made in Step 1, and you'll use a method that you can google for finding the number of characters in a string, and you can call that method on the variable that holds the tweet so far.