Initializing cats

if you declar first initialize "black" into other initialize is always "black". i hope was util you

For anyone that was confused by the wording around "average" they aren't expecting you to calculate any averages. They are simply asking you to make up values for those unknowns.

Make sure that you have the arguments in the same order that they state. On the initialize method that uses name, weight, and age as arguments. I put the arguments in the order of name, age, and weight, and it wouldn't accept it.

so i named my methods "initialization" rather than "initialize" and cost me 15min and 5 trys. This requirement is not clear at all. Initialize method can be refer to both these types of method as well as narrowly defined as the name of this particular method

Perhaps I am over-thinking. But a value like -1 should be an acceptable default for age and weight default. It's more clear some average weight we make up. Same with not being able to use null for a color. Null, like -1, is a clear indicator that we need to have a valid value in there at some point. 🤪

Resolved, but I don't understand the answers. Only initialize age and weight with the specified arguments.

Why does the 3rd initialize method

The class must have an initialize method that takes a name and age as arguments, and initializes all variables except the address.

Pass without setting values to weight and color yet all the other initialize method variables have to be set if not passed as an argument?

For those that are having trouble, remember how we worked with constructors? We used those to auto populate (non) static variables of each object. Well, when we declared variables that were not part of the constructor and those variables were declared non static within the same class, can you object.variable and the IDE can find that variable? If so, then you know how to complete this task. By the way, if a variable is null, it is the same as never having "assigned a value (initialized)" Good luck

First time I made 10 unsuccessful attempts resolve problem :) very unclear task content. P.S. thx BlueJavaBanana

Set all variables that are not passed into the method but need to be initialized with a random value. e.g. String color = "Blue";