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Java Java Objects Meet Objects Add a Constructor

Jay Garcia
Jay Garcia
909 Points
Posted by Jay Garcia
Jay Garcia
909 Points

Where am I going wrong here?

I have reviewed the video before this and cannot seem to find my error.

GoKart.java 
class GoKart {
  private String color;

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

  public String getColor() {
    return color;
  }

}

1 Answer

K Cleveland
K Cleveland
21,839 Points
K Cleveland
K Cleveland
21,839 Points 
public GoKart (String color){
    color = color;
  }

Check out this part of the code. In your constructor, when you pass in "color", you're telling it to set "color" to "color". However, what you really want to do is make sure that this object will use the color value that get passed in.

Hopefully this helps! Good luck. :)

Jay Garcia
Jay Garcia
909 Points
Jay Garcia
Jay Garcia
909 Points

Thank you. I found the answer shortly after I posted this but did not know how to remove the question.