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Theo Bouwman
2,812 PointsWhat am I supposed to do? Doesn't understand very wel.
What am I supposed to do?
And can someone tell what to do?
public class GoKart {
public String mColor = "red";
public String colorOfKart = "";
}
1 Answer
piyush arora
5,735 PointsHi Theo,
You are supposed to add the getter method so that one can view the color of the cart by invoking this method. Getter methods are used to retreive private variables and similarly, by using the Setter methods one can manipulate the values of the private variables by passing in a new value. For eg:
class Animal{
private int mAge=5; // private variable...user does not have access to it
public int getAge(){ //getter method so the user can view the age because it has private scope
return mAge;
}
public int setAge(int age){ //setter method so that user can manipulate the age
mAge=age;
}
}
This is all because one cannot directly access the private variables!!