Question

I am trying to make use a class I made, but when I call the class is doesn’t work and I am kind of lost.

The error is coming at the class call and initialization of tally at the bottom of the program.

package counter;

public class Counter {
    private int value;
    public Counter(int intialValue){
        value = intialValue;
    }

    private void count() {
        value = value + 1;
    }
    private void reset(){
        value = 0;
    }
    public int getValue(){
        return value;
    }

    Counter tally = new Counter();
    tally.count();

    }

Answer 1

All Java statements must be put into a method of some kind.

Currently your last two lines are not in a method.

Counter tally = new Counter();
tally.count();

Try something like this:

public class Counter {

  ... existing members ...

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    int initialValue = Integer.parseInt(args[0]);
    Counter tally = new Counter(initialValue);
    tally.count();
  }
}