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Java Java Objects Creating the MVP Prompting for Guesses

Posted by Andrea De Nuzzo
Andrea De Nuzzo
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What kind of information are we passing to the variable game in this.game = game?

Ok, I'm a little confused on this one. At minute 1:35 Craig makes a constructor that has as a parameter the creation of a game object from class Game

public Prompter(Game game){
  this.game = game;
}

I dont really get what kind of information we are passing now to the constructon. If it was a int would be a number, a String would be a word or sentence, char would be a single letter. But what happens when we pass as parameter an object of a class we actually created? What kind of information is stored? Thanks!

1 Answer

Livia Galeazzi
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Livia Galeazzi
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Livia Galeazzi
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Livia Galeazzi
Java Web Development Techdegree Graduate 21,083 Points

It's not an int or a String, it's a Game (an object of type Game). Each class you create can be used to build an object. The information passed is a reference to that object, which includes all variables and methods of that object.

See my other answer on this topic: https://teamtreehouse.com/community/game-game-this-is-so-confusing