Questions on BonusHW1-Summer08

Questions on BonusHW1-Summer08

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When I am trying to hide the turtles after I have drawn them, I typed in

  public void hide(esther) {
    visible = false; }

as seen in SimpleTurtle.java. However, when I try to compile it, I get an error saying Error: illegal start of expression What's going on, and how do I fix it?

You don't need to actually rewrite the hide method...if your LetterTurtle extends Turtle, you can just use the hide method from SimpleTurtle. Hence, if you have a Turtle named ester, then you can hide her by calling ester.hide(). Student1086
Read what Katie said. If you were trying to rewrite the method, you need to put SimpleTurtle before esther but it really is not necessary to rewrite the method because one of the main points of inheritance is that we don't have rewrite all of the methods. Dawn Finney

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