stuck on getColor method

Brendan;

Welcome to Treehouse!

You are on the right track, but let's break this down a bit.

You created the new GoKart object correctly, stylistically I would have placed it after the text stating that a new GoKart will be created and would have named it differently, but you certainly got that concept down. For the next task...

Task 2

Print out using System.out.printf the color of the new object, using the getColor method.

After creating our new object, we need to print out it's color that we assigned to it when we created the GoKart. If you remember from previous code challenges, there is a getColor() method that we can use. We are able to access it with the syntax ourCartObjectName.getColor(). Using that knowledge, along with our command of the System.out.printf() function, we would do something along the lines of:

public class Example {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("We are going to create a GoKart");
        GoKart purpleKart = new GoKart("purple");
        System.out.printf(purpleKart.getColor());
    }
}

If you notice in the above code, I named my GoKart object after the color. This will help to keep track of the objects later on instead of things like firstKart, secondKart, etc. The above code also follows a certain logical flow of what is happening, right? It prints out that we will be creating a GoKart, then it creates one. It is my opinion that it makes it easier to read and later on debug if the code reflects what is actually occurring.

Post back if you are still stuck and happy coding.

Ken