Cannot find symbol error

hi, i'm new to java and working on a assignment for school

I'm trying to get this piece of code to work:

Code:

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class Vos {

        public int getGegeten() {
                return 1;
        }
       
        public void resetGegeten() {
                Vos.getGegeten = 0;
        }
}

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The resetGegeten must set the getGegeten to 0, but when I compile this code I get a Cannot find symbol error. Can anybody please help me? Thanks in advance.

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I get a Cannot find symbol error.

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What symbol and on what line of the program?

Where is the variable: getGegeten defined?
The syntax of the statement: Vos.getGegeten
says that the variable is a static variable in the Vos class.

javac Vos.java
Vos.java:7: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable getGegeten
location: class Vos
Vos.getGegeten = 0;
^
1 error

Vos.java extends Dier.java, Dier.java implents IDier.java

Vos.java:

Code:

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class Vos extends Dier {
        public int getGegeten() {
                return 1;
        }

        public void resetGegeten() {
                Vos.getGegeten = 0;
        }
}

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Dier.java

Code:

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abstract class Dier implements IDier {

}

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IDier.java

Code:

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public interface IDier {

        public int getGegeten();
       
        public void resetGegeten();

}

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Where is the variable: getGegeten defined?

I see a method with that name but no variable.

Isn't that defined in the part?:

Code:

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public int getGegeten() {
        return 1;
    }

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Do you know what a variable is?
What you have posted is the definition of a method.
You do not assign values to methods. You call them to perhaps do some task and perhaps return a value.
The method you have posted returns an int with value 1.

A variable definition starts with a datatype followed by the variable's name:
String someString ...
int someInt ...

ok, I understand it now, thank you for helping