Thread: please help me find errors on my code,please give me reasons why i keep getting errors

[B]class Accounts
{
int principal; // Data members of the class
int interest;
int time;
int amt;
public Accounts ()
{
principal = 50000;
interest = 5;
time = 3;
return principal, interest, time;
}
public void calc()
{
amt= principal*interest*time/100;
System.out.println(“The amount is :” + amt);
}
public static void main(String args[])
{
Accounts l1= new Accounts ();
l1.calc();
}
}[/B]

Welcome to the Forum! Thanks for taking the time to learn to post code correctly, and if you haven't already, please read this topic to see other useful info for newcomers.

Though you managed to post your code in code tags (a good thing for a first post), either the formatting was lost or you don't indent your code (which is not a good thing). If you do indent your code, please copy your indented code as it appears at your end and replace the code you've posted with properly indented code. The bolding inside the code tags is unnecessary and may be contributing to loss of formatting, but I'm not sure.

Post the errors you'd like help with.

Hi. You are getting errors because you have a return statement in the constructor.
If you remove the return it should be ok.
PS: In future, add a private identifier to your instance variables.

Can you please be at least more specific because m kind of beginner in java?

// this is a constructor (notice no return type, not even void)
public Accounts ()
{
    principal = 50000;
    interest = 5;
    time = 3;
 
    // this is a return statement. constructors don't have return types.
    // constructors can't return values. methods that have a void
    // return type can't return values.
    return principal, interest, time;
 
}

You should know the basic names of the essential elements of a Java program; class, method, constructor, variable/field; what they mean, and how to find them in code.

Other problems:

The quotes you posted are not accepted by all editors compilers. Be sure to use a plain text editor or an IDE that uses the correct characters.

You will be a victim of "integer math." Your equations will provide integer results, sometimes zero, when you might be expecting other results.

Originally Posted by GregBrannon

// this is a constructor (notice no return type, not even void)
public Accounts ()
{
    principal = 50000;
    interest = 5;
    time = 3;
 
    // this is a return statement. constructors don't have return types.
    // constructors can't return values. methods that have a void
    // return type can't return values.
    return principal, interest, time;
 
}

You should know the basic names of the essential elements of a Java program; class, method, constructor, variable/field; what they mean, and how to find them in code.

Other problems:

The quotes you posted are not accepted by all editors compilers. Be sure to use a plain text editor or an IDE that uses the correct characters.

You will be a victim of "integer math." Your equations will provide integer results, sometimes zero, when you might be expecting other results.

how should it be?

See post #3 and apply the advice given there. We won't rewrite your code for you.

Thanks