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not sure what I am doing wrong been checking the compiler error and I still don't understand. Question below

Okay, so I need to count how many occurrences of a specific letter is in the player's tiles. Let's build that over a couple of steps. I've added some example use cases in Example.java

Create a new method named getCountOfLetter that returns an int, and requires a parameter of type char named letter. For this task, just make it return 0.

ScrabblePlayer.java

public class ScrabblePlayer {
  // A String representing all of the tiles that this player has
  private String tiles;
    private char    letter;
  public ScrabblePlayer() {
    tiles = "";
  }
    public int getCountOfLetter(char letter){
        for (char letter    :   tiles.toCharArray())    {
          return count;
    }


  public String getTiles() {
    return tiles;
  }

  public void addTile(char tile) {
    tiles += tile;
  }

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

Example.java

// This code is here for example purposes only
public class Example {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    ScrabblePlayer player1 = new ScrabblePlayer();
    player1.addTile('d');
    player1.addTile('d');
    player1.addTile('p');
    player1.addTile('e');
    player1.addTile('l');
    player1.addTile('u');

    ScrabblePlayer player2 = new ScrabblePlayer();
    player2.addTile('z');
    player2.addTile('z');
    player2.addTile('y');
    player2.addTile('f');
    player2.addTile('u');
    player2.addTile('z');

    int count = 0;
    // This would set count to 1 because player1 has 1 'p' tile in her collection of tiles
    count = player1.getCountOfLetter('p');
    // This would set count to 2 because player1 has 2 'd'' tiles in her collection of tiles
    count = player1.getCountOfLetter('d');
    // This would set 0, because there isn't an 'a' tile in player1's tiles
    count = player1.getCountOfLetter('a');

    // This will return 3 because player2 has 3 'z' tiles in his collection of tiles
    count = player2.getCountOfLetter('z');
    // This will return 1 because player2 has 1 'f' tiles in his collection of tiles
    count = player2.getCountOfLetter('f');
  }
}

Answer 1 · 2018-11-29T13:51:47Z

November 29, 2018 1:51pm

You are just going too fast. For step #1 of this exercise you only need to :

Create a new method, named getCountOfLetter, that returns an int and with a parameter of type char named letter.
Make the method return 0.

Nothing more. The method just has a name, a return type, a parameter, and returns 0.

So, for this step, you just need to add:

public int getCountOfLetter(char letter) {
    return 0;
}

Hope this helps

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