[Bluej-discuss] Please help - cannot resolve symbol - exercise 2.74

[dominic]

AHH,

Yes that is exactly what I did wrong.

I am a little bit embarrased now.

thanks for your time

dominic

Michael Kölling wrote:

> Hi Dominic,
>
> It helps being a bit more precise: when exactly do you get the error  
> -- when you compile, or when you are trying to invoke a method?
>
> I am guessing that it is on invocation. If that is the case, then the  
> most likely problem is that you wrote the author's name without  
> double-quotes. The name is a Sting, and Strings in Java are always  
> written with double-quotes. That is, write
>
>     "Shakespeare"
>
> rather than
>
>     Shakespeare
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
>
>
>
>
> On 8 Oct 2006, at 16:50, dominic.smith wrote:
>
>> Hi list
>>
>> I am about 10 hours into learning java. I have been working through
>> chapter 2 of the evaluation pdf's (I have ordered the book, but i am
>> still waiting for it, amazon...)
>>
>> I hit a bit of stumbling block on exercise 2.74 when working on an  
>> class
>> exercise that involves adding 2 accessor methods that return author  and
>> title fields.
>>
>> i keep getting an error saying it cannot resolve the symbol (author  
>> name
>> I enter etc).
>>
>> No doubt I have made a very obvious school boy error. Please help,  even
>> cryptic hints would be good.
>>
>> dominic
>>
>>
>> Code:
>> ______________________________________________________________________ 
>> __
>>  class Book
>> {
>>     // The fields.
>>     private String author;
>>     private String title;
>>
>>     /**
>>      * Set the author and title fields when this object
>>      * is constructed.
>>      */
>>     public Book(String bookAuthor, String bookTitle)
>>     {
>>         author = bookAuthor;
>>         title = bookTitle;
>>     }
>>
>>     // Add the methods here ...
>>
>>     public String getAuthor()
>>     {
>>         return author;
>>     }
>>
>>     public String getTitle()
>>     {
>>         return title;
>>     }
>> //commented the following out as it did not seem to help!
>> // public void setBook(String bookAuthor, String bookTitle)
>>     //{
>>         //author=bookAuthor;
>>         //title=bookTitle;
>>     //}
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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