Class Declarations for temperature program in Java

You need a Temperature class. I’m just guessing that you’ve added those methods to the TempProg considering the improper “constructor”. What you need is another class all together like so… The constructor should not return a value. It should look like… public Temperature(), or some variation depending on your specific requirements.

Return outside method error

From your comment response above, I am going to make the educated guess that you believe that defines a Java method called openingboard. This isn’t the case. Java follows the C paradigm of requiring you to specify your parameters in parentheses, regardless of whether you have any parameters or not. So, the method is a valid … Read more

What does the Ruby method ‘to_sym’ do?

to_sym converts a string to a symbol. For example, “a”.to_sym becomes :a. It’s not specific to Rails; vanilla Ruby has it as well. It looks like in some versions of Ruby, a symbol could be converted to and from a Fixnum as well. But irb from Ruby 1.9.2-p0, from ruby-lang.org, doesn’t allow that unless you add your own to_sym method to Fixnum. I’m … Read more

Accessing a class’ member variables in Python?

The answer, in a few words In your example, itsProblem is a local variable. Your must use self to set and get instance variables. You can set it in the __init__ method. Then your code would be: But if you want a true class variable, then use the class name directly: But be careful with this one, as theExample.itsProblem is automatically set to … Read more

Verify a method call using Moq

You’re checking the wrong method. Moq requires that you Setup (and then optionally Verify) the method in the dependency class. You should be doing something more like this: In other words, you are verifying that calling MyClass#MyMethod, your class will definitely call SomeClass#DoSomething once in that process. Note that you don’t need the Times argument; I was just demonstrating its … Read more