Multiple classes basics, putting a print class into the main method

java, oop

Solution

This does not work because you are printing a wrong thing: rather than printing `test`, you should call a method on it, like this:

public class deck {
    public static void main(String[] args){
        edward test = new edward();
        test.message(123);
    }
}

`message(int)` is a method (more specifically, an instance method). You call instance methods by specifying an instance on which the method is to be called (in your case, that is `test`), the name of the method, and its parameters.

The other kind of methods is `static` - i.e. like `main`. These methods do not require an instance, but they cannot access instance properties either.

Problem

I am trying to see the basics for what is required to call in a second class, because tutorials and the book I am using are over-complicating it by using user input right now. So here is what I tried. First is my main class and the second is the class I tried to call into the main method portraying just a simple text. ``` public class deck { public static void main(String[] args) { edward test = new edward(); System.out.print(test); } } ``` Other class: ``` public class edward { public void message(int number) { System.out.print("hello, this is text!"); } } ``` How come this doesn't work? If you could try to explain what I am doing or how this works a bit in detail that would be nice. I'm having a hard time with this part and getting a bit discouraged.

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