Help with simple programming

Question

Hello everyone.
First time posting, i hope someone would be able to help me out. There are 5 classes that i have to do, but i only need help with one of them. I've been stuck on this one pretty long and can't continue without it.
Instructions:
•     Has boolean data member face, either HEADS or TAILS.
•     Has a Random data member flipper which is instantiated in the constructor.
•     Class constructor has no parameters and randomly chooses the result HEADS or TAILS. (See method flip())
•     Method getFace() returns the face showing on the coin.
•     void method flip() randomly selects HEADS or TAILS.
package coinflip;
import java.util.Random;
* @author Blank
public class Coin {
    boolean face = false;
    int flip_coin;
    Random flipper = new Random();
    int getFace() {
        return flip_coin;
      Coin() {
        if (flip_coin == 0) {
            face = true;
        } else {
            face = false;
    public void flip() {
        flip_coin = flipper.nextInt(2);
}i really don't know why the random isn't working. I hope someone would be able to find my errors and instruct me on how to fix them. I would be able to continue the rest of the classes as soon as i got this figured out.
Oh and can someone teach me how to import this class into a main one? So i can test it out. This is what i have for it.public class Main {
     * @param args the command line arguments
    public static void main(String[] args) {
     Coin flipCoin = new Coin();
     for(int i=0;i<6;i++){
     System.out.println(flipCoin.getFace());
}Many Thanks!
Edited by: Java_what on Feb 16, 2009 2:26 PM

Answer 1

Constructors are only executed once. What im confused about is:
• Class constructor has no parameters and randomly chooses the result HEADS or TAILS. (See method flip())
I thought i would flip() into the constructor. Mind helping me out on the whole class because it seems i am clueless about this whole class.
Edit:
public class Coin {
    boolean face = false;
    int flip_coin;
    Random flipper = new Random();
    int getFace() {
        flip();
        return flip_coin;
    Coin() {
       //flip();
    public void flip() {
        flip_coin = flipper.nextInt(2);
}K i reread what you wrote about the constructor and method. So i placed flip() method in getFace(); because its being called in the main(it gives me random numbers). The problem now is following the directions.
I just dont understand this description. • Class constructor has no parameters and randomly chooses the result HEADS or TAILS. (See method flip())
What do you think it means.
Edited by: Java_what on Feb 16, 2009 4:14 PM