Thread: Void Methods Question

Okay so beginner programmer here and I've been self-teaching myself Java in preparation for my into class in the Spring.

I am having trouble getting this program to run. As you can see, I am trying to use the threeLine method to create space between "First Line" and "Second Line" in the main method.

public class method {
public static void threeLine() {
newLine();
newLine();
newLine();
System.out.println("");
}

public static void main (String[] args) {
System.out.println ("First Line."); threeLine();
System.out.println ("Second Line.");

}

}

Anyway, I am at adding new methods, and here's the code that I have that is not running (I am using a book and the book has the EXACT code but mine isn't running for some reason. I am getting error code "newLine method not defined for the class method"

Thanks in advance

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What book are you using?

Style point: In Java, class names begin with capital letters.

The error message is clear, but I'll add a few words: The threeLine() method calls another method, newLine(). The method newLine() is not recognized by the compiler, so it doesn't know what to do with it. I suspect the newLine() method was covered elsewhere in that book you're reading, or it's part of a custom library that the book has either shown you how to build or download/copy from somewhere. Do a little more looking and see if you can' find some mention of it.

@Greg

You're spot on. I forgot to declare a new method threeLine(). I've been using "How to Think like a Computer Scientist - Java Programming" by Allen B. Downey

Once I declared threeLine(), I was able to add newLine() underneath to print what I wanted (which, as you probably guessed, was just space between "First Line" and "Second Line")

Here's the correct code:

public class method {
public static void newLine() {
System.out.println ("");
}
public static void threeLine() {
newLine();
newLine();
newLine();
}

public static void main (String[]args) {
System.out.println ("First Line.");
threeLine();
System.out.println ("Second Line.");

}

}

And I apologize I still don't know how to use the code function to put the code in, er, code. Thanks for your help!