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Alandus James
Courses Plus Student 597 PointsTrying to use a helper method to change implementation details for a method. I need to use ! and a while loop.
I have tried several different lines of code that points to how I have currently written my code. What am I missing?
public class GoKart {
public static final int MAX_ENERGY_BARS = 8;
private String mColor;
private int mBarsCount;
public GoKart(String color) {
mColor = color;
mBarsCount = 0;
}
public String getColor() {
return mColor;
}
public void charge() {
mBarsCount = MAX_ENERGY_BARS;
}
public boolean isBatteryEmpty() {
return mBarsCount == 0;
}
public boolean isFullyCharged() {
boolean wasCharged = false;
while(!isFullyCharged()) {
mBarsCount++;
wasCharged = true;
}
return mBarsCount == MAX_ENERGY_BARS;
}
}
3 Answers
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 PointsHi, Alandus James , isFullyCharged as helper function has been provided to you by the code challenge, and you should use it as it is and don't make any modification to it.
Change the implementation of charge() function instead to make use of the helper function.
public void charge() {
while (!isFullyCharged()) {
mBarsCount++;
}
}
Craig Dennis
Treehouse TeacherYou use isFullyCharged to check and see if the battery is fully charged, it shouldn't do anything, because you didn't tell it to. You never want to assume how someone is going to use your code, so you don't want to create side effects.
Alandus James
Courses Plus Student 597 PointsThank you for your responses. I think I'm starting to get the understanding of this now. I have learned so much from your videos and with you answering my questions as I need them is like your right there with me. Thanks again.
Alandus James
Courses Plus Student 597 PointsThanks, that's what I end up doing. But I'm not understanding why this is the correct answer verse changing isFullyCharged method.