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Java Java Objects Harnessing the Power of Objects Overload Methods

Posted by Miguel Nunez
Miguel Nunez
1,081 Points

UGH! Totally stuck!

Stuck in the exercise on Method Overloading. Particularly, the second task. If someone could give me a hint, I would certainly appreciated!

Thank you!

GoKart.java 
class GoKart {
  public static final int MAX_BARS = 8;
  private String color;
  private int barCount;
  private int lapsDriven;

  public GoKart(String color) {
    this.color = color;
  }

  public String getColor() {
    return color;
  }
  public void charge() {
    barCount = MAX_BARS;
  }

  public boolean isBatteryEmpty() {
    return barCount == 0;
  }

  public boolean isFullyCharged() {
    return MAX_BARS == barCount;
  }

  public void drive() {
    drive == lapsDriven;
  }
public void drive(int lapsDriven) {
lapsCount += lapsDriven;
barCount -= lapsDriven;
}

}

2 Answers

doesitmatter
doesitmatter
12,885 Points
doesitmatter
doesitmatter
12,885 Points

Hi Miguel Nunez,

The answer is in the question.

Create a new method named drive that accepts no arguments. 

  public void drive() {

  }

It should call the newer drive method passing in a 1 for the default.

public void drive() {
    drive(1);
  }

That's it. This demonstrates method overloading, we defined two methods with the same name, one in task 1 and the other in task 2. The one we defined in task 2 is defined as the default for the function.

I hope this helped!

sig

Miguel Nunez
Miguel Nunez
1,081 Points
Miguel Nunez
Miguel Nunez
1,081 Points

Yep! It certainly did. I'm pretty darn new at this. Just took up. I guess that at that point I just got all swamped!

Thanks!