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I really din’t get this course. I don’t understand what static means.
I did:
private static int forestsCreated;
public static int ForestsCreated
{
get { return forestsCreated; }
private set { forestsCreated = value; }
}
I get: tests/test.cs(15,32): error CS0246: The type or namespace name ‘Forest’ could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?) [/home/ccuser/workspace/csharp-static-members-static-fields-and-properties/StaticMembers.csproj]
What file are you running the code in? I can’t see a test.cs file. Did you manually create this? If so, it does not have the Forest namespace set at the top of the file. Let me know if that resolved it.
Soooooo what does Static mean? What does it do? And what’s its purpose?
I’m not too sure what’s going on as the lesson’s text is ‘non-beginner friendly’, I want to known what static does and when we should use it. But my PRIMATIVE brain can’t understand the ‘too-well-put-text’ written here for only the sophisticated.
Thanks for your help. I didn’t see it until today. What I did was try clicking on the “restart exercice” button, then I did the exercise the same as before, but it went alright this time. I’m not sure where the problem came from.
So I guess what you write from previous exercises is kept for the following ones?
public static int ForestsCreated {
get { return forestsCreated; }
private set { forestsCreated = value; }
}
In the constructor, we have the statement
ForestsCreated++;
This is shorthand for
ForestsCreated = ForestsCreated + 1;
In the above statement, we are going to evaluate the expression to the right of the assignment operator = first. When we try to access the value for ForestsCreated, this will call the get method of the ForestsCreated property. Whatever current value is assigned to the forestsCreated field will be returned and then the expression ForestsCreated + 1 will be evaluated. This will result in some number.
When we try to assign this number to ForestsCreated (i.e. when we try to assign this number to the variable to the left of the = operartor), this will call the set method of the ForestsCreated property. In the setter we have the statement,
forestsCreated = value;
The number that we calculated earlier (by adding 1 to the previous value) will be treated as the value and will be assigned to the forestsCreated field.
Every time a new instance is created, the constructor will be called. Within the constructor, the statement ForestsCreated++; will end up incrementing the private static field forestsCreated as per the above process.
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