Setter/Getter methods causing errors.

Question

I'm having a hard time figuring out why when I create an Circle instance with no arguments and adding the values after with setters isn't working? When I delete the line Circle c3 = new Circle() my program works fine. I also can't call the getters to see if the setters worked.

public class MyCircle {

    private double radius;
    private double x;
    private double y;

    public MyCircle()
    {
        x = 0;
        y = 0;
        radius = 0;
    }
    public MyCircle(double X, double Y, double rad)
    {
        x = X;
        y = Y;
        radius = rad;
    }
    public void setX(double value)
    {
        x = value;
    }

    public void setY(double value)
    {
        y = value;
    }

    public void setRadius(double value)
    {
        radius = value;
    }

    public double getX()
    {
        return x;
    }

    public double getY()
    {
        return y;
    }

    public double getRadius()
    {
        return radius;
    }

    public double getArea()
    {
        return (radius * radius) * Math.PI;
    }

    public boolean doesOverlap(MyCircle oC)
    {
        double distance = Math.sqrt((Math.pow(x - oC.x, 2) + Math.pow(y-oC.y, 2)));

        if ((radius + oC.radius) > distance)
        {
            return true;    
        }
        else
        {
            return false;
        }
    }
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Circle c3 = new Circle();
        Circle c1 = new Circle(1.0, 2.0, 3.0);
        Circle c4 = new Circle(1.0, 6.0, .5);

        c3.setX(1.0);
        c3.setY(2.0);
        c3.setRadius(5.0);
        System.out.println(c3.getArea());
        System.out.println(c1.getRadius());
        System.out.println(c1.toString());
        System.out.println(c4.toString());
        if (c1.equals(c4))
        {
            System.out.println("c1 equals c4");
        }
        else
        {
            System.out.println("c1 does not equal c4");
        }

        if (c1.doesOverlap(c4))
        {
            System.out.println("c1 Overlaps c4");
        }
        else
        {
            System.out.println("c1 Does Not Overlap c4");
        }

    }
}

Answer 1

Your class is called MyCircle not Circle. You are trying to create Circle objects.

Replace:

Circle c3 = new Circle();

With:

MyCircle c3 = new MyCircle();

Answer 2

your class name is MyCircle instead of Circle

• change the name of the class for Circle
• Or change where you instantiate for MyCircle