cannot find symbol - method parameters

Question

Seems like a pointless post when you look at the title but i've been scouting SO for hours for a solution with no luck, maybe the screen is blinding me -_-

Anyway, the overloaded constructor of a particular class is throwing me a "cannot find symbol" compiler error and i've no idea why. The code causing my issue is this:-

public Student(String fname, String sname, int age, string ID, String avgGradeStr, String projectedGradeStr, String progTitle, int avgGradeInt, int projectedGradeInt, int progID, double attendance)

and the error originates at the "int avgGradeInt" argument.

Not to bombard you with code, the full class is as follows and if needed I can post the Person class also.

package DoC;
import java.util.*;

class Student extends Person
{

    protected String avgGradeStr, projectedGradeStr, progTitle;
    protected int avgGradeInt, projectedGradeInt, progID;
    protected double attendance;

    //CONSTRUCTOR
    public Student()
    {
        fname="Not";
        sname="Set";
        avgGradeStr="Not Set";
        ID="Not Set";
        projectedGradeStr="Not Set";
        progTitle="Not Set";

        avgGradeInt=0;
        projectedGradeInt=0;
        progID=0;
        attendance=0;
    }

    //CONSTRUCTOR (OVERLOADED)
    public Student(String fname, String sname, int age, string ID, String avgGradeStr, String projectedGradeStr, String progTitle, int avgGradeInt, int projectedGradeInt, int progID, double attendance)
    {
        fname=this.fname;
        sname=this.sname;
        age=this.age;
        ID=this.ID;
        avgGradeStr=this.avgGradeStr;
        projectedGradeStr=this.projectedGradeStr;
        progTitle=this.progTitle;

        avgGradeInt=this.avgGradeInt;
        projectedGradeInt=this.projectedGradeInt;
        progID=this.progID;
        attendance=this.attendance;
    }

    //GETTERS

    //get average grade string
    protected String getAvgGrade()
    {
        return avgGradeStr;
    }

    //get average grade integer
    protected int getAvgGradeInt()
    {
        return avgGradeInt;
    }

    //get projected grade string
    protected String getProjectedGrade()
    {
        return projectedGradeStr;
    }

    //get projected grade int
    protected int getProjectedGradeInt()
    {
        return projectedGradeInt;
    }

    //get attendance
    protected double getAttendance()
    {
        return attendance;
    }

    //get programme-of-study ID
    protected int getProgrammeID()
    {
        return progID;
    }

    //get programme-of-study title
    protected String getProgrammeTitle()
    {
        return progTitle;
    }
    //END GETTERS

    //START SETTERS

    //set programme id
    protected void setProgrammeID(int progID)
    {
        try{
            progID=this.progID;
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println("setProgrammeID() error: " + e);
        }
    }

    //set programme title
    protected void setProgrammeID(String progTitle)
    {
        try{
            progTitle=this.progTitle;
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println("setProgrammeTitle() error: " + e);
        }
    }

    //set average grade string
    protected void setAvgGrade(String avgGradeStr)
    {
        try{
            avgGradeStr=this.avgGradeStr;
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println("setAvgGrade() error: " +e);
        }
    }

    //set average grade int
    protected void setAvgGradeInt(int avgGradeInt)
    {
        try{
            avgGradeInt=this.avgGradeInt;
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println("setAvgGradeInt() error: " +e);
        }
    }

    //set projectede grade string
    protected void setProjectedGrade(String projectedGradeStr)
    {
        try{
            projectedGradeStr=this.projectedGradeStr;
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println("setProjectedGrade() error: " +e);
        }
    }

    //set projectede grade int
    protected void setProjectedGradeInt(int projectedGradeInt)
    {
        try{
            projectedGradeInt=this.projectedGradeInt;
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println("setProjectedGrade() error: " +e);
        }
    }
    //END SETTERS

} //END CLASS

As always, any help greatly appreciated guys!

Answer 1

string ID should be String ID (there's no string class in the Java API).

Also note that you should swap your assignments in your constructor. Same for your setters.

I really recommend you to use an IDE (like Eclipse). You'll be able to correct these errors much more faster, than asking here =).

Answer 2

Well, I see that you have string ID instead of String ID. Sometimes mistakes like that cause the compiler to freak out and end up reporting the problem somewhere else.