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Java Java Objects Creating the MVP Scrabble Tiles

Amit Dhamankar
Amit Dhamankar
4,163 Points
Posted by Amit Dhamankar
Amit Dhamankar
4,163 Points

What is wrong in this code?

I have used the boolean variable isPresent to check whether the tile is in the Tiles.

ScrabblePlayer.java 
public class ScrabblePlayer {
  // A String representing all of the tiles that this player has
  private String tiles;

  public ScrabblePlayer() {
    tiles = "";
  }

  public String getTiles() {
    return tiles;
  }

  public void addTile(char tile) {
    // TODO: Add the tile to tiles
    tiles += tile;
  }

  public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
    // TODO: Determine if user has the tile passed in
    return false;
    boolean isPresent = tiles.indexOf(tile)!= -1;
    if(isPresent) return true;
    else return false;
  }

}

1 Answer

Daniel Vargas
Daniel Vargas
29,184 Points
Daniel Vargas
Daniel Vargas
29,184 Points

Well first of all you shouldn't return false at the beginning of your method, because doing that your other code would never execute, and second, they don't want you to use if staments because they are redundant in this case, so the method is quite simple:

  public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
    // TODO: Determine if user has the tile passed in

    return tiles.indexOf(tile)!= -1;

  }

}
Amit Dhamankar
Amit Dhamankar
4,163 Points
Amit Dhamankar
Amit Dhamankar
4,163 Points

Thanks Daniel it worked