Access Modifiers Total Salaries

Question

Could some one help me please? I am supposed to fix the code to correctly modify the access to the attributes and complete the method to calculate and return the sum of the total salaries. I keep getting illegal start of expression. This is what I got so far:

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Answer 1

1. Do not use access modifier inside a method
2. Name and salary variables are marked as private
3. In the CalculateTotalSalary method, you doesn't add any parameters

solution:
1. remove all private keyword inside main
2. change name and salary access-modifier to public
(replace "private name" and "private salary" to "public name" and "public salary")
3. add two parameters in CalculateTotalSalary method,
for example.
"CalculateTotalSalary(int a, int b) { return a+b; }"

Answer 2

Thank you so much Yousef Ady. Thanks to you I see the simple errors I easily overlooked. I am new to coding so I appreciate your informative feedback

Answer 3

If it is necessary to keep attributes private you can use a private constructor and public method to set name and salary with new object returned for that class and later access values using get method.

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Answer 4

// Created by Guy Robbins

public class Program {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// James
Worker worker1 = new Worker();

worker1.setName("James");
System.out.println("name: " + worker1.getName());

worker1.setSalary(200000);
System.out.println("salary: " + worker1.getSalary());

// Tom

Worker worker2 = new Worker();
worker2.setName("Tom");
System.out.println("name: " + worker2.getName());

worker2.setSalary(150000);
System.out.println("salary: " + worker2.getSalary());

int sum = worker1.getSalary() + worker2.getSalary();
System.out.println("sum salary: " + sum);

}
}
public class Worker {
private String name;
public String getName() {
return name;
}

public void setName(String a) {
this.name = a;
}

private int salary;
public int getSalary() {
return salary;
}

public void setSalary(int b) {
this.salary = b;
}
}