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Java Java Objects Creating the MVP Scrabble Tiles

michael lee
michael lee
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Posted by michael lee
michael lee
5,179 Points

what am i doing wrong

can someone tell me what am i doing wrong

ScrabblePlayer.java 
public class ScrabblePlayer {
  // A String representing all of the tiles that this player has
  private String tiles;
  private String hits;
  private String misses;

  public ScrabblePlayer() {
    tiles = "";
    hits = "";
    misses = "";
  }

  public String getTiles() {
    return tiles;
  }

  public void addTile(char tile) {
    tiles += tile ;
    // TODO: Add the tile to tiles

  }

  public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
    boolean isHit = tiles.indexOf(tile) != -1;
  return true;
  }

}

1 Answer

Ruben Ponce
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Ruben Ponce
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Ruben Ponce
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Ruben Ponce
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Student 12,035 Points

You're almost there. All you need to do is return whether or not the tiles array contains any tile. We can do this with the indexOf method.

public boolean hasTile(char tile) { return tiles.indexOf(tile) >= 0; }

So this will return true if there's a tile, and false if there isn't.