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Thread: Cannot find Symbol?

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    Default Cannot find Symbol?

    I was given a problem:

    Design a TestScores class that has fields to hold three test scores. The class should have accessor and mutator methods for the test score fields, and a method that returns the average of the test scores. Demonstrate the class by writing a separate program that creates an instance of the class. The program should ask the user to enter three test scores, which are stored in the TestScores object. Then the program should display the average of the scores, as reported by the TestScores object.

    The class seems to work fine, its the exe file that isnt running. I get

    G:\CIS 18A\week2\Test_KagawaDavidDemo.java:12: cannot find symbol
    symbol : constructor Test_KagawaDavid()
    location: class Test_KagawaDavid
    Test_KagawaDavid Scores = new Test_KagawaDavid();
    ^
    G:\CIS 18A\week2\Test_KagawaDavidDemo.java:16: cannot find symbol
    symbol : variable nextDouble
    location: class java.util.Scanner
    Scores.setTest1(input.nextDouble);
    ^
    G:\CIS 18A\week2\Test_KagawaDavidDemo.java:19: cannot find symbol
    symbol : variable nextDouble
    location: class java.util.Scanner
    Scores.setTest2(input.nextDouble);
    ^
    G:\CIS 18A\week2\Test_KagawaDavidDemo.java:22: cannot find symbol
    symbol : variable nextDouble
    location: class java.util.Scanner
    Scores.setTest3(input.nextDouble);
    ^
    4 errors


    /* This is the Class */

     args)
    	{
    		Test_KagawaDavid Scores = new Test_KagawaDavid();
    		Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
     
    		System.out.println("Enter Test1 ");
    		Scores.setTest1(input.nextDouble);
     
    		System.out.println("Enter Test2 ");
    		Scores.setTest2(input.nextDouble);
     
    		System.out.println("Enter Test3 ");
    		Scores.setTest3(input.nextDouble);
     
    		System.out.println("Average of these scores is: " + Scores.average());
     
    		JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Program Complete");
     
                   }
    }

    What Am I doing Wrong?


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    Default Re: Cannot find Symbol?

    Where are the definitions for the symbols that the compiler can't find? (symbol is compiler talk for word or token)

    Check the API doc for the Scanner class. Are you trying to use a method of that class or get to one of its variables? Hint: method calls end with ()s.

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    Default Re: Cannot find Symbol?

    The compiler says it can't find the constructor for the Test_KagawaDavid class. Is that class in the same package or are you importing it? Can you post the code for it?

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    Default Re: Cannot find Symbol?

    For the other errors is says cannot find variable nextDouble. Perhaps it is a method instead.

    Error messages are there for a reason. If you plan on learning programming then you need to read them and attempt to fix them yourself. Most are fairly basic and easy to identify what you have done wrong.

    Ooops! I didn't see Norm's reply. Must get my eyes checked.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Junky View Post
    Ooops! I didn't see Norm's reply. Must get my eyes checked.
    Should have gone to BugSavers

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    BugSavers
    Is that a UK thing?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Norm View Post
    Is that a UK thing?
    Yes, it would seem so. Pardon my cultural parochialism - there's a ubiquitous advertising campaign in the UK for cheap spectacles by a company called SpecSavers, which shows silly mistakes caused by poor eyesight (e.g. sheep shearer shearing his sheep-dog), with the tag-line "Should have gone to SpecSavers".

    Seemed amusing at the time...

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    Quote Originally Posted by dlorde View Post
    Yes, it would seem so. Pardon my cultural parochialism - there's a ubiquitous advertising campaign in the UK for cheap spectacles by a company called SpecSavers, which shows silly mistakes caused by poor eyesight (e.g. sheep shearer shearing his sheep-dog), with the tag-line "Should have gone to SpecSavers".

    Seemed amusing at the time...
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