Code Doing Better But Still Problematic.; HELP

Question

The end result is that the java program will take input through a console from a User (employee) and figure the hours worked times pay rate, then print out everything like the following example:
Employee Name: John Doe
Hourly Pay Rate: 8.00
Hours Worked: 40
Total Pay: 320.00
THAT's IT. I do have another class called Employee.java and Console.java, both of which do not have any errors. But the following has a few errors that don't make any sense. HELP. THANKS.
In the EmployeeDriver.java class, the errors are:
1. Malformed expression at line 15.
2. Illegal start of expression at line 18.
When I click on the error messages the lines
public static void main (String argv[])
  { highlight for the "malformed expression" error, and "illegal start" for the
public Console = new Console(); line. I tried public Console, private Console, Employee Console and just plain Console, the same error message remained.
Here's the entire EmployeeDriver code:
package Employee;
* <p>Title: Employee</p>
* <p>Description: Application allows an employee to enter a name, wage rate, hours worked and compute total pay.</p>
* <p>Copyright: Copyright (c) 2002</p>
* <p>Company: </p>
* @author John Doe
* @version 1.0
public class EmployeeDriver {
public class Console {
  public static void main(String argv[])
    public Console = new Console();
    Employee myEmployee = new Employee();
    String eN = Console.readString ("Enter Your Name");
    myEmployee.setName(eN);
    double payRate = Console.readDouble ("Enter Your Rate-of-Pay");
    myEmployee.setpayRate(payRate);
    double Hours = Console.readDouble ("Hours Worked");
    myEmployee.setHours(Hours);
         // Output the results.
    System.out.println("Your name is: " + myEmployee.getName());
    System.out.println ("Hourly Pay Rate: " + myEmployee.payRate());
    System.out.println ("Hours Worked: " + myEmployee.getHours());
    System.out.println (" ");   // Print a blank line
    System.out.println("Total Pay: " + myEmployee.totalPayThisWeek());
     System.out.println (" ");   // Print a blank line
    System.out.println("Please hit Enter to continue");

Answer 1

The code that I left the last is "the one and only
code for this project". So, it "is" the correct pasted
code. Below is what I now have, and as fu*k*ing
usual, filled with another batch of error messages.
Get rid of one batch of damned error messages and have
another batch show up.Hehe.
* Method readString(java.lang.string)not found in
class employee.EmployeeDriver.Console at line 20
* Method readDouble(java.lang.string)not found in
class employee.EmployeeDriver.Console at line 22
* Method readDouble(java.lang.string)not found in
class employee.EmployeeDriver.Console at line 24All three of these errors are the same ones I was just talking about. Ok, you already have a class written called Console (defined in Console.java). You also wrote your own class called Console. Look, this is your code (with some stuff removed):
    public class EmployeeDriver {
        public class Console
            public void main (String argv[])
    }See that line "public class Console"? You wrote that. For some reason, you are defining your own class named Console. It's an inner class of EmployeeDriver (because it is declared inside EmployeeDriver, hence all the errors having to do with "EmployeeDriver.Console"). Why are you doing that?
So, you have your own class named Console (in EmployeeDriver.java, which I will refer to from now on as EmployeeDriver.Console to avoid confusion), and you have this class Console from Console.java. We can see by looking at Console.java that Console does, indeed, contain the methods readString and readDouble. So, you don't need to write them. Here's what is happening when you try to call one of them, say, Console.readDouble:
1) You call Console.readDouble()
2) The compiler looks for this method in EmployeeDriver.Console, not the Console in Console.java.
3) Since that method is not in EmployeeDriver.Console, you get the error (even though it's in Console, because the compiler doesn't look in Console, it looks for it in EmployeeDriver.Console).
You do not need to define your own class named console. Like I said before, try changing your code to something more like:
    public class EmployeeDriver {
        public static void main (String argv[]) {
            // This is your 'main' code... notice it's in
            // EmployeeDriver, not EmployeeDriver.Console.
            // Also notice that the "public class Console"
            // line no longer appears... this is because we
            // don't need to or want to define our own class
            // in EmployeeDriver named Console.
    }You solved the 'no static members in inner classes' error by making main not static any more. The method 'main' must be static. You need to forget about this EmployeeDriver.Console stuff. Don't declare your own class named 'Console'! You need to make 'main' a static member of EmployeeDriver and, I can't say it enough, you must get rid of that EmployeeDriver.Console inner class.
Jason
public class EmployeeDriver {
public class Console
public void main(String argv[])
Employee myEmployee = new Employee();
String name = Console.readString ("Enter Your Name
ame ");
myEmployee.setName(name);
double payRate = Console.readDouble ("Enter Your
our Rate-of-Pay ");
myEmployee.setpayRate(payRate);
double hours = Console.readDouble ("Hours Worked
ked ");
myEmployee.setHours(hours);
// Output the results.
System.out.println("Your name is: " +
" + myEmployee.getName() + "name ");
System.out.println ("Hourly Pay Rate: " +
" + myEmployee.getpayRate() + "payRate ");
System.out.println ("Hours Worked: " +
" + myEmployee.getHours() + " hours ");
System.out.println (" "); // Print a blank line
System.out.println("Total Pay: " +
" + myEmployee.getTotal() + "total ");
System.out.println (" "); // Print a blank line
System.out.println("Please hit Enter to continue
nue ");
Employee.java ..NO errors here... package employee;
* <p>Title: Employee</p>
* <p>Description: Application allows an employee to
enter a name, wage rate, hours worked and compute
total pay.</p>
* <p>Copyright: Copyright (c) 2002</p>
* <p>Company: </p>
* @author John Doe
* @version 1.0
public class Employee{
// field variables
private String name;
private double hours;
private double payRate;
private double Total;
public Employee()  // empty constructor
// full constructor.  'Sets' do not return
return anything, thus void.
public Employee (String n, double h, double p, double
t)
name = n;
hours = h;
payRate = p;
Total = t;
}      // end full constructor
// 'Sets' do not return anything, thus void.
public void setName (String n)
name = n;
public void setHours (double h)
hours = h;
public void setpayRate (double p)
payRate = p;
public void setTotal (double t)
Total = t;
// get all of the field variables
public String getName()
return name;
public double getHours()
return hours;
public double getpayRate()
return payRate;
// public method to calculate pay
public double getTotal()
return Total;
public double Hours()
return hours;
public double payRate()
return payRate;
public double Total()
return hours * payRate;
Console.java  ...Coded by Sun Microsystems, so nothing
is changed here. package employee;
public class Console
* print a prompt on the console but don't
t don't print a newline
* @param prompt the prompt string to display
public static void printPrompt(String prompt)
{  System.out.print(prompt + " ");
System.out.flush();
* read a char or string from the console. The
le. The string is
* terminated by a newline
* @return the first character as a char
a char (without the newline)
public static char readChar()
char ch=' ';
try
ch = (char) System.in.read();
catch(java.io.IOException e)
return ch;
public static char readChar(String prompt)
printPrompt(prompt);
return readChar();
* read a char or string from the console. It
ole. It must start with T or F.
* The string is terminated by a newline. If
ne. If the first character
* is an f, the boolean false is returned or
rned or true for a T.
public static boolean readBoolean()
boolean done = false;
char ch=' ';
do {
try
ch = (char)
ch = (char) System.in.read();
catch (java.io.IOException e)
if (ch=='T' || ch == 't' || ch
='T' || ch == 't' || ch == 'F' || ch == 'f')
done = true;
} while (!done);
if (ch=='T' || ch == 't')
return true;
else
return false;
/** reads a Boolean from the keyboard
* returns the Boolean
public static boolean readBoolean(String prompt)
printPrompt(prompt);
return readBoolean();
* read a string from the console. The string
string is
* terminated by a newline
* @return the input string (without the
out the newline)
public static String readString()
{  int ch;
String r = "";
boolean done = false;
while (!done)
{  try
{  ch = System.in.read();
if (ch < 0 || (char)ch ==
(ch < 0 || (char)ch == '\n')
done = true;
else if ((char)ch != '\r') //
f ((char)ch != '\r') // weird--it used to do \r\n
translation
r = r + (char) ch;
catch(java.io.IOException e)
{  done = true;
return r;
* read a string from the console. The string
string is
* terminated by a newline
* @param prompt the prompt string to display
* @return the input string (without the
out the newline)
public static String readString(String prompt)
{  printPrompt(prompt);
return readString();
* read a word from the console. The word is
* any set of characters terminated by
ated by whitespace
* @return the 'word' entered
public static String readWord()
{  int ch;
String r = "";
boolean done = false;
while (!done)
{  try
{  ch = System.in.read();
if (ch < 0
||
||
||
||
||
||
||
|| java.lang.Character.isWhitespace((char)ch))
done = true;
else
r = r + (char) ch;
catch(java.io.IOException e)
{  done = true;
return r;
* read an integer from the console. The input
e input is
* terminated by a newline
* @param prompt the prompt string to display
* @return the input value as an int
* @exception NumberFormatException if bad
if bad input
public static int readInt(String prompt)
{  while(true)
{  printPrompt(prompt);
try
{  return Integer.valueOf
(readString().trim()).intValue();
} catch(NumberFormatException e)
{  System.out.println
("Not an integer. Please
("Not an integer. Please try again!");
* read a floating point number from the
rom the console.
* The input is terminated by a newline
* @param prompt the prompt string to display
* @return the input value as a double
* @exception NumberFormatException if bad
if bad input
public static double readDouble(String prompt)
{ while(true)
{ printPrompt(prompt);
try
{ return Double.valueOf
(readString().trim()).doubleValue();
} catch(NumberFormatException e)
{ System.out.println
("Not a floating point number. Please
t number. Please try again!");