HELP!!!!! SimpleNIM game

[scd250]

This is due in a couple hours. I have been struggling with it all week and it just will NOT compile. Here are my two classes. There are more but I am not supposed to touch them, the first draws off the second:

[DiamondSoul]

Read what the errors are telling you. "Player cannot be resolved to a type". "SimpleNIM cannot be resolved to a type". For some reason, the classes Player and SimpleNIM are not visible to your program. Did you include them in your project properly?

[scd250]

I CANNOT alter the simpleNIM class, it was given and has to be used as-is.

[joeyvitoro]

He's not suggesting you do. He's saying that the code you wrote can't see the simpleNIM class and the getsticks variable, wherever that may be.

[scd250]

OKAY. I included it so it now at least sees the player and simpleNIM classes, but new problem. It still cannot see the sticksLeft variable.

[joeyvitoro]

OK, so I don't know where that variable is declared. I don't see it in the code you provided. Where so it?

[scd250]

aaaaaaaaaa

[joeyvitoro]

OK, I see what's happening here. It is an easy fix. Take a look at the getSticksLeft() accessor method. Pay attention to what parameters it takes and what it returns. Now take a look at how you are calling it in your code. See it?

[scd250]

edited for finish

[DiamondSoul]

You don't return anything from that method. You calculate bestMove, but you don't return it. Replace each instance of "bestMove = [some number];" with "return [some number];".

[joeyvitoro]

Don't worry...that's progress. The error is telling you exactly what's wrong. whatever calls the method bestMove is expecting it to return a value. Your code determines what that value should be, but you don't do anything with it.

[scd250]

It works. Holy $*** it works. Thank you guys so much. Hugs all around! :d