Java Class Writing

[wintry agate]

Hello, I have an assignment on Java class writing and to me the codelooks fine but I have errors. I realize it is likely something really simple to fix, but as a beginner I'm not great at spotting and then fixing the issues. If someone would be able to take a look and walk me through how to fix it, that would be wonderful.

[unique tinsel]

<@&987246399047479336> please have a look, thanks.

[hot estuary]

you are using variables which do not exist

age = a; what is a?

[minor carbon]

same with n and out. etc

[polar hearth]

where is a?

[minor carbon]

I suggest to read the errors

[wintry agate]

I was trying to write it as age = a so I could use a as a keyword

[polar hearth]

is a public?

[minor carbon]

a doesnt exist

[hot estuary]

a does not exist

[minor carbon]

keyword?

[wintry agate]

Yes, I also change a to be age = age and name =name so now there are only six errors instead of 10

[polar hearth]

can i see those logs

[hot estuary]

that won't work because of name conflicts

[polar hearth]

i would suggest going like

this.age = age

but im not sure if that really works

java newbie attempting to help someone with java should be a sitcom

[hot estuary]

that is, in fact, how you resolve name conflicts

[wintry agate]

It did!

[wintry agate]

And I agree

[polar hearth]

wow

that was just a guess:0

i had not read the code thoroughly

[wintry agate]

We actually just learned that last class for us, thank you

[polar hearth]

glad to help! you're very welcome

now i need someone to help with my project

alright imma play a game ig

[hot estuary]

now you're using methods that do not exist

also, out does not exist

[wintry agate]

Fixed. I'm down to 3 errors left m.One (Cannot find) slightly confused

[hot estuary]

again

you are calling methods that do not exist

[wintry agate]

Well I wrote mOne = new Monster and am trying to call mOne did I not declare it right?

[hot estuary]

mOne.isBigger(mTwo)

what is isBigger?

[wintry agate]

Trying to ask is Monster One bigger than Monster two

[hot estuary]

so how is it should be determined?

and, more importantly, how is Java supposed to know that?

[wintry agate]

Ah, taking a guess here, but the "isBigger" isn't declared anywhere else. Is that my issue here?

[hot estuary]

have you learned methods in your class?

[wintry agate]

Code that only runs when called

[hot estuary]

that's a weird way to put it

all code only runs when it's called

[wintry agate]

It's meant to perform a specific task (but then again all code is)

[hot estuary]

but you're supposed to create methods in your class that compare the size of a monster that the method is called on, to the size of the monster that's passed as an argument

same with name

(also, dunno why you named the field age instead of size)

[wintry agate]

Fixed

Do I need to add a boolean for checking if the names are the same?

[hot estuary]

you need to make two methods that return a boolean value

if the statement above confuses you, you should re-examine your study materials, since you've said that you already learned methods

[wintry agate]

I think I got it to work

Thank you so much for your help

[polar hearth]

ofc!