Thread: Help with Assignment

This is a Java program consisting of two classes. The basic idea is a bank account. I am having trouble calling a method called 'mystery' from the Account to the Tester. Program being used is BlueJ, if that helps to explain the code layout.

Account:

public class BankAccount
{  
   private double balance;
 
   public BankAccount()
   {   
      balance = 0;
   }
   public BankAccount(double initialBalance)
   {   
      balance = initialBalance;
   }
   public void deposit(double amount)
   {  
      double newBalance = balance + amount;
      balance = newBalance;
   }
   public void withdraw(double amount)
   {   
      double newBalance = balance - amount;
      balance = newBalance;
   }
   public double getBalance()
   {   
      return balance;
   }
   public void mystery(BankAccount that, double amount)
   {
       this.balance = this.balance - amount;
       that.balance = that.balance + amount;
    }
}

Tester:

public class BankAccountTester
{
public static void main(String[] args)
   {
      //Initial balance
      BankAccount bankAcct = new BankAccount(10000);
      System.out.println("Balance should be equal to: 10000");
      System.out.println("Initial Balance: " + bankAcct.getBalance());
      //Withdraw 200
      bankAcct.withdraw(2000);
      System.out.println("Balance should be equal to: 8000");
      System.out.println("Actual balance: " + bankAcct.getBalance());
      //Deposit 100
      bankAcct.deposit(100);
      System.out.println("Balance should be equal to: 8100");
      System.out.println("Actual balance: " + bankAcct.getBalance());
      //Withdraw 1000
      bankAcct.withdraw(1000);
      System.out.println("Balance should be equal to: 7100");
      System.out.println("Actual balance: " + bankAcct.getBalance());
      //'mystery' method result
 
      System.out.println("Mystery Method result: ");
   }
}

Thanks in advance for any help. I'm a Web Design major that somehow ended up in a programming class, so it's a bit over my head and I just need a little guidance now and then.

Start commenting out lines of code from main program until it runs. Then try to uncomment the last line you commented and try to figure out what you did wrong.

Maybe it's unfair,but when I see a whole broken program delivered to me with the demand "fix it", it kind of feels like I'm dealing with a toddler.

Perhaps you can contact classmates and make a study group where you collectively try to figure out what's wrong in each other's code.

Good luck

The program as it is written compiles and runs with the correct results (for deposit, withdraw, balance, etc). I am not asking you to 'fix it' so much as help me figure out how to make the 'mystery' method show a result via the Tester that can be shown with a println.

The ones I have tried in Tester to run it are as follows (showing underneath the // explanation for mystery):

bankAcct.this();
bankAcct.that();
bankAcct.mystery();

The class itself consists of seven people, all of which are confused how to do exactly what I am asking. The only clue our teacher has given is: Private instance variables can only be accessed by methods of the same class.

Ah, I get what your asking!
Learning Java my self so was interested to see what would happen..

The signature for mystery() is:

public void mystery(BankAccount that, double amount)

So you need to pass it a BankAccount and a value.

try:

bankAcct.mystery(bankAcct, 100.00);

though that doesn't explain what it does!

Terry