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Android Build an Interactive Story App The Model-View-Presenter Pattern Adding a Custom Constructor

Posted by Christopher Mawonde
Christopher Mawonde
3,044 Points

Adding constructors

Hello there. Im getting this error message on this challenge: ./Spaceship.java:11: error: illegal start of expression public Spaceship(); {

Spaceship.java 
public class Spaceship {
    public String shipType;

    public String getShipType() {
      return shipType;
    }

    public void setShipType(String shipType) {
      this.shipType = shipType;

    public Spaceship(); {
      this.shipType = "SHUTTLE";
    }
}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,236 Points

Thee's a stray semicolon between the parentheses and the open brace.