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Zak Manz
1,390 PointsUnable to call the PezDispenser pd = new PezDispenser("Yoda"); in Jshell
jshell> PezDispenser pd = new PezDispenser("Yoda");
| Error:
| cannot find symbol
| symbol: class PezDispenser
| PezDispenser pd = new PezDispenser("Yoda");
| ^----------^
| Error:
| cannot find symbol
| symbol: class PezDispenser
| PezDispenser pd = new PezDispenser("Yoda");
| ^----------^
class PezDispenser { public static final int MAX_PEZ = 12; final private String characterName; private int pezCount;
public PezDispenser(String characterName) { this.characterName = characterName; pezCount = 0; }
public void fill() { pezCount = MAX_PEZ; } public void fill(int pezAmount){ pezCount += pezAmount; } public boolean dispense() { boolean wasDispensed = false; if (!isEmpty()) { pezCount--; wasDispensed = true; } return wasDispensed;
} public boolean isEmpty() { return pezCount == 0; } public String getCharacterName() { return characterName; } }
public class Example {
public static void main(String[] args) { // Your amazing code goes here... System.out.println("We are making a new PEZ Dispenser"); System.out.printf("FUN FACT: There are %d PEZ allowed in every dispenser %n", PezDispenser.MAX_PEZ);
PezDispenser dispenser = new PezDispenser("Yoda");
System.out.printf("The dispenser is %s %n",
dispenser.getCharacterName()
);
if (dispenser.isEmpty()) {
System.out.println("Dispenser is empty");
}
System.out.println("Filling the dispenser with delicious PEZ..");
dispenser.fill();
if (!dispenser.isEmpty()) {
System.out.println("Dispenser is full");
} while (dispenser.dispense()) { System.out.println("Chomp!"); } if (dispenser.isEmpty()) { System.out.println("Ate all the PEZ");
}
} }
2 Answers
![Rajbie Sarwar](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/bc8789301173a77407eae831754b4f6f?s=96&d=https%3A%2F%2Fecs-static.teamtreehouse.com%2Fassets%2Fcontent%2Fdefault_avatar-445fbbabfc8dc9188fb5967fe43322ee0c3e0dd1e10f378bf8343784af5a13eb.webp&r=pg)
Rajbie Sarwar
4,772 PointsIt's kinda hard to understand what the problem is since your code is not formatted properly. Can you explain what you are having trouble with?
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Justin Rose
12,842 Pointsthere seems to be an issue in jshell. I am having trouble as well intializing a new PezDispenser object. I get the same error.
Zak Manz
1,390 PointsZak Manz
1,390 PointsHi Rajbie,
Thank you for the reply, I reworked my code and I managed to get this to work.