Have weird error message, help please.

Question

I've created two classes to interact with each other from a problem in my text book. Here is the problem from the book:
Implement a class Employee. An employee has a name(a string) and a salary (a double). Write a default constructor, a constructor with two parameters(name and a salary), and methods to return the name and salary. Write a small program that test your class.
I'm think the error is probably small, but I'm having trouble identifying it.
Here is the code and error messages
This class contains a constructor designed to construct an employee object with
the parameters name & salary.
public class Employee
   String name;
   double salary;
      This constructor, when called, constructs an object Employee,
      sets the initial name and salary.
   public Employee(String constructName, double constructSalary)
   name = constructName;
   salary = constructSalary;
   The method returns the value for name to the EmployeeTester class.
   public String employeeName()
      return name;
   This method returns the value for salary to the EmployeeTester class.
   public double employeeSalary()
      return salary;
This class contains an executable program designed to test the functionality
of the class Employee.
public class EmployeeTester
   public static void main(String[] args)
         Employee rick = new Employee(rick,10000);
         System.out.println("The employee name is " + rick.employeeName + ".");
         System.out.println("The employee salary is " +rick.employeeSalary + ".");
}C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Comp 1900 files\EmployeeTester.java:9: cannot find symbol
symbol : constructor Employee(Employee,int)
location: class Employee
Employee rick = new Employee(rick,10000);
^
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Comp 1900 files\EmployeeTester.java:10: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable employeeName
location: class Employee
System.out.println("The employee name is " + rick.employeeName + ".");
^
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Comp 1900 files\EmployeeTester.java:11: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable employeeSalary
location: class Employee
System.out.println("The employee salary is " rick.employeeSalary ".");
^
3 errors

Answer 1

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Comp
1900 files\EmployeeTester.java:9: cannot find symbol
symbol : constructor Employee(Employee,int)
location: class Employee
Employee rick = new Employee(rick,10000);The error message is telling you exactly what's going yon. You're trying to create a new Employee by passing an Employee and an int to the constructor. Employee does not have a c'tor that takes Employee and int as arguments. So either create such a c'tor, or call one that does exist. (Without looking at your code or what you're trying to do, I'll say that the latter is more likely the correct course.)
Also, you've got a flaw there, in that at the point you say Employee rick, rick does not have a value, but then in the same line, you try to pass rick's value to the c'tor, but rick doesn't have a value yet. You're saying, "here's this new variable rick, give it a value based on it's current, nonexistent value."
^
Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Comp 1900
files\EmployeeTester.java:10: cannot find symbol
ymbol : variable employeeName
location: class Employee
System.out.println("The employee name is " +
rick.employeeName + ".");Again, the error message is very explicit. You're trying to use a member variable called employeeName where Employee has no such member variable.
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C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\Comp
1900 files\EmployeeTester.java:11: cannot find
symbol
symbol : variable employeeSalary
location: class Employee
System.out.println("The employee salary is "
rick.employeeSalary ".");Based on the above, you should be able to figure this one out.