When I am compiling my java, it gives me an error: ./PezDispenser.java:2: error: class, interface, or enum expected.

Yes, that worked, but now it says illegal start of expression. This my code: public class PezDispenser{

Would you post all your code?

Here: public class PezDispenser { public static void main(String[] args) { public class PezDispenser{ private String mCharacterName; private int mPezCount; public PezDispenser(String CharacterName) { mCharacterName = CharacterName; mPezCount = 0; } public boolean dispense() { boolean wasDispensed = false; if (!isEmpty()) { mPezCount--; wasDispensed = true; } return wasDispensed; } public boolean isEmpty() { return mPezCount == 0; } public final static int MAX_PEZ = 12; public String getCharacterName(){ return mCharacterName; } public void load(){ mPezCount = MAX_PEZ; } } } } Sorry, Don't know how to put in code like you.

The problem is in the beginning of the code:

public class PezDispenser { 
    public static void main(String[] args) { 
        public class PezDispenser { 
            private String mCharacterName; 
            private int mPezCount; 
            public PezDispenser(String CharacterName) { 
                mCharacterName = CharacterName; 
                mPezCount = 0;  
            } 
            ...

The main method should only be used if you would execute this class directly. However, none of your code indicates that this is the intention. Therefore I assume that you have a separate class from which you create instances of PezDispenser and uses them. This seperate class then needs to have a main method, but PezDispenser should not have it. The below code should fix the problem:

public class PezDispenser { 
    private String mCharacterName; 
    private int mPezCount; 
    public PezDispenser(String CharacterName) { 
        mCharacterName = CharacterName; 
        mPezCount = 0;           
    } 
    ...

I have removed the main method and your second class definition, and then you need to remove a couple of } at the end of the file.

I still don't understand why you took out the public static void main(String[] args) { ps: how do you put in code like that?

Code can be but in by using

```java

Your code

```

If you write in another language, you can replace java with that language.

The main method is what is run when you run the statement (assuming you have compiled it):

java PezDispenser

However when you have a Java project you usually have multiple files that work together, but the user should only start one program (the main program), and then the other java files are used by the main program. Therefore only the main program should have a main method. Consider this Driver for the PezDispenser:

public class Driver {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        PezDispenser pd = new PezDispenser("Yoda");
        //play around with the newly created PezDispenser
    }
}

We will now run our program (again assumed it is compiled), which uses our PezDispenser:

java Driver

Since we use this Driver, we do not want to run PezDispenser for itself, and therefore we should not have a main method inside it.

I hope it makes sense

I'm so sorry, but I still don't understand. Thanks a lot anyways.