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Posted by Nicholas Cotton
Nicholas Cotton
Courses Plus Student 5,247 Points

Don't understand why it wont work

I'm working on the code challenge in the methods video that wants to do the following:

Write a method inside the Frog class named EatFly. It should take a single integer parameter named distanceToFly and return a bool value. It should return true if the frog can reach the fly with its tongue, and false otherwise.

I do

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges { class Frog { public readonly int TongueLength;

    public Frog(int tongueLength)
    {
        TongueLength = tongueLength;

    }

    public bool EatFly(int distanceToFly)
    {

       if(TongueLength == distanceToFly){
        return true;
       } 


       return false;

    }

}

}

but when check this work it says it is wrong "The frog should be able to eat flies within the reach of its tongue."

I think my logic is correct if not please help.

2 Answers

james south
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james south
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james south
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james south
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you need to change it from just checking if the distances are equal. there are other options like greater than or equal to. that would cover distances from the frog up to the length of its tongue.

Nicholas Cotton
Nicholas Cotton
Courses Plus Student 5,247 Points

ok I got it instead of using == i used length < distance ..... wouldnt the equal be correct as well tho ? ... if they are equal then return true else return false ... okay so im over thinking it.... when i put equal that if the length is greater than distance the method would return false but logically if the length is great than the distance the frog should still be able to eat. thanks for the help =)

Nicholas Cotton
Nicholas Cotton
Courses Plus Student 5,247 Points

Well then the TongueLength == distanceToFly would be false and it would not return true.. it would return false... i can add the else block after the if statement but the samethign happens it does not let me get past it when i click check ...

``` namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges { class Frog { public readonly int TongueLength;

    public Frog(int tongueLength)
    {
        TongueLength = tongueLength;

    }

    public bool EatFly(int distanceToFly)
    {

       if(TongueLength == distanceToFly){
        return true;
       } 
       else
       {
           return false;
       }



    }

}

}