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Israel Palma
1,456 PointsI do not understand what is it that getTileCount method should do
Should it count the tiles in the mHand? Or should it count how many repeated tiles does the mHand has?
public class ScrabblePlayer {
private String mHand;
public ScrabblePlayer() {
mHand = "";
}
public String getHand() {
return mHand;
}
public void addTile(char tile) {
// Adds the tile to the hand of the player
mHand += tile;
}
public void getTileCount(){
}
public boolean hasTile(char tile) {
return mHand.indexOf(tile) > -1;
}
}
1 Answer
Chris Freeman
Treehouse Moderator 68,426 Points // Task 1 of 1 asks:
// Add a method called 'getTileCount' that ...
public int getTileCount(char tile) {
// Initialize count
int count = 0;
// uses the for each loop you just learned to loop through the characters
for (char letter: mHand.toCharArray()) {
if (letter == tile) {
// and increment a counter if it matches.
count += 1;
}
}
// Return the (int) count
return count;
}
Israel Palma
1,456 PointsIsrael Palma
1,456 PointsHi Chriss so it has to count repeated letters ok. Thank you