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Java

Posted by Matthew Francis
Matthew Francis
6,967 Points

Super Newbie - What is wrong with my code?

Right when I added "mGame.hitOrMisss(userLetter);" in the Prompter.java, the whole compiler does not work (it says cannot find symbol), any ideas why?

//In file called HelloWorld.java
        public class HelloWorld{
             public static void main(String []args){
             String secretWord = "treehouse";
             Game nGame = new Game(secretWord);
             Prompter nPrompter = new Prompter(nGame);
             nPrompter.enterMsg();
             }
        }
//In another file called Game.java
         public class Game{
            private String mAnswer;
            private String mHits;
            private String mMisses;

            public Game(String secretWord){
                mAnswer = secretWord;
                mHits = "";
                mMisses = "";
            }

            public void hitOrMiss(String userLetter){
                if(mAnswer.indexOf(userLetter) >= 0){
                    mHits+=userLetter;
                }
                else{
                    mMisses+=userLetter;
                }
            }
        }

//In another file called Prompter.java
        import java.io.Console;

        public class Prompter{
            public String userLetter;
            private Game mGame;
            public Prompter(Game newGame){
                mGame = newGame;
            }
            public void enterMsg(){
                Console console = System.console();
                userLetter = console.readLine("Enter a letter: ");
                mGame.hitOrMisss(userLetter);
            }
        }

1 Answer

Jonathan Petersen
Jonathan Petersen
45,721 Points

In the Prompter class, you are calling the hitOrMiss method on the mGame object. You have an extra 's' you have 

mGame.hitOrMisss(userLetter);

and it should be 

mGame.hitOrMiss(userLetter);

Don't feel bad. Something like this happens all of the time. An IDE would catch this.