Help with Creating a method that takes a string of arrays?

Question

i just begin my intro to programming and im a little stuck we had to write a program yesterday and i managed fine then today we had to work with arrays and i dont know much about arrays so im hoping someone here can point me in the right direction. This is what he wants *"Create a method called "printReceipts" that takes a String array of names (first names only) and prints out a message to customers using their name and telling them what customer number they are. The method should work with an array of any size."*
Im not asking you to do it for me just i gues point out what methods i need to change thanks
package edu.nmhu.cs245;
public class Assignment1 {
     private String messagePrefix1 = "Hello ";
     private String messagePrefix2 = ", \n";
     public String[] getName() {
          String[] names = new String[] {"Lonny", "Gil", "Hosein"};
          return names;
     public String getCompleteMessage(String name, String message) {
          String completeMessage = messagePrefix1 + name + messagePrefix2 + message ;
          return completeMessage;
      * @param args
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          Assignment1 a = new Assignment1();
          String[] names = a.getName();
          for (int i = 0; i < names.length; i++) {
               String printReciepts = a.getCompleteMessage(names,"You are customer number#" +(i+1));
               System.out.println(printReciepts);
               System.out.println();

Answer 1

Focus! You should know what every single line of code is supposed to do! And they should all add up to a larger goal.
Don't just put in stuff that seems like it's part of a relevant example.
     public String[] getName() {
          String[] names = new String[] {"Lonny", "Gil", "Hosein","Sam"};
          return names;
     }Are you supposed to do it that way? Or did it come with the assignment? It's (probably) fine for a homework assignment, but it's hardcoded data, which in practice one normally doesn't do.
          String completeMessage = messagePrefix1 + names + messagePrefix2 + messageSuffix ;Why do this? You're supposed to produce a receipt per use, not for all users at one.
          for (int i = 0; i < names.length; i++) OK, good. You could have used a foreach loop but this is fine.
               String printReciepts = a.getCompleteMessage(names,"You are customer number#" +(i+1));What is "getCompleteMessage"?  You didn't define it.  Do you think that it is created implicitly because of the local String variable you created called "completeMessage"?  It doesn't.           String2 a = new String2();Don't call your class "String2".  It doesn't mean anything.  Name it after the assignment or something.           a.printReceipts(names);"names" isn't defined.  There's a local variable called "names" in the getNames method, but it doesn't exist when you call this and it's unavailable anyway.  You probably meant to do           a.printReceipts(a.getName());