Beginning College Java Project. Help Me Please !!!

Question

The following is code that im writing for a program that will play a game between the user and the computer. I am getting an error message saying "CLASS EXPECTED".
The error is pointing me to the playerChoose Method where the variable pcchoice is trying to accept the value inputted by the user.
I am a beinner to the Java Language and am having difficulty understanding what the problem is or what the error means.
Can someone please help me!!!
import java.io.*;
import java.util.Random;
class NIM
public static void main (String [] args) throws IOException
     int game = 21; //Keeps Track of sticks remaining.
     Random random = new Random();
     PrintInstructions ();
     playerChoose();
     game = game - pchoice;
     computerChoose();
     game = game - cchoice;
//~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
static void PrintInstructions ()
     System.out.println ("You are going to play the game NIM.\n");
     System.out.println ("In this version of NIM, there are 21 sticks on the table.");
     System.out.println ("On each move, the user and the computer take turns picking");
     System.out.println ("up 1,2 or 3 sticks until there are no more sticks left.");
     System.out.println ("The one who picks up the last stick loses.\n");
//~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
static int playerChoose()
     pchoice = 0;
     BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
     System.out.println ("Choose your sticks. Enter 1-2 or 3.");
     pchoice = int.ParseInt(in.readline);
     while pchoice = 1
     return(pchoice);
//~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
static int computerChoose()
     int cchoice = 0;
     for (i= 1; i<=50; i++)
     cchoice = random.nextInt(3)+1;
     return(cchoice);
}

Answer 1

In this line
pchoice = int.ParseInt(in.readline);you are wanting to parse the String entered from the keyboard as an int.
One way to do that is to use the parseInt method from the Integer class.
To use a static method from a class you start with the name of the class, followed by the name of the method (with the correct capitalization!), like this:
pchoice = Integer.parseInt(in.readline);The following line is missing parentheses; add them as below:
while (pchoice = 1)These corrections will expose more errors that can then be fixed.