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There was a bug for me on this exercise - filenames password.txt and blastoff.txt were created and printed to the console but no code for this was in the editor.
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ditto, ,but then when I ran the code again, nothing happened
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can someone explain to me why this is not working??
thanks in advance??
class Computer
@@users = Hash.new
def initialize(username, password)
@username = username
@password = password
@files = Hash.new
@@users[username] = password
end
def create(filename)
time = Time.now
@files[filename] = time
puts “New file created by #{username}!”
end
end
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Hello.
I believe I had the same issue as you. I was getting the red X of nope when I tried to run it, but got no explanation as to why. I looked bck over the example in the first part of the lesson and found the issue:
In the puts section at the end, it needs to be #{@username}, not #{username}.
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yep, same error here. o.o
Hey guys! i need some help with this one 
class Computer
@@users={}
def initialize (username,password)
@username=username
@password=password
@files={}
@@user[username]=password
end
def create (filename)
time=Time.now
@files[filename]=time
puts “New file was created from #{username}”
end
end
thanks!!!
def create (filename)
time=Time.now
@files[filename]=time
puts “New file was created from #{username}”
end
end
The create method doesn’t recognize username as a variable. You’d need to use @username from what I can tell.
If I am wrong, please someone correct me. 
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Are we supposed to have access to another .rb file in which new instances of our class Computer are created? If not, how are the two instances created and output to the terminal (as others describe above)?
My first attempt at running the code below resulted in duplicate puts statements. When running it a second/third/fourth time, the console didn’t print anything. In order to print it again, I had to copy the code, refresh the editor, paste the code, and run again. Voila! I reported these issues to Codecademy just now but wanted to share with y’all so you don’t think you’re missing something. Happy learning! 
class Computer
def initialize(username, password)
@username = username
@password = password
@files = Hash.new
@@users[username] = password
end
@@users = Hash.new
def create(filename)
time = Time.now
@files[filename] = time
puts "Nicely done! #{@filename} was created by #{@name} on #{time}."
end
end
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Next, inside create , add a new key/value pair to the @files hash. Use the filename key to store the value time .
IS IT CHINESE LANGUAGE, THANKS FOR CODECADEMY PRO TO BE SHORT ITS VERY HELPFULL!!!
