Thread: "The Beginner's Guide to Android Game Development" syntax and theory questions

I am just beginning my journey to becoming a Java programmer. I bought the beginner's guide book to facilitate my educational journey. I have come to a point where the code listed in the book brings about errors in my programming enviornment even before I run the code. I am using "Eclipse" as my programming enviornment.

I created a new project call "Coder". This project has two classes, "World" and "Coder". The initialize method is a problem and calling upon the initialize method in the "Wold" class is a problem...for some reason.

Can someone tell me what I am missing? In the "World" class, the [c.initialize ("Bill, 59")] is a problem, why? How else would I write this and why would this suggestion work. Why does what I wrote not work?

 
public class World 
{//start World class
 
		public static void main (String [] args)
		{//start main method
			Coder c = new Coder();
			c.describe();
			System.out.println ("");
			c.initialize("Bill, 59");
			c.describe();
		}//end main method
}//end World class

public class Coder 
{//start Coder class
 
	private String name;
	private int age;
 
	private void initialize (String name, int age)
	{//start initialize method
		this.name = name;
		this.age = age;
	}//end initialize method
 
	public void writeCode()
	{//start writeCode method
		System.out.println (name + " is coding!");		
	}//end writeCode method
 
	public void describe()
	{//start describe method
		System.out.println ("I am a coder");
		System.out.println ("My name is " + name );
		System.out.println (" I am " + age + "years old");		
	}//end describe method
}//end Coder class

is a problem

Please explain. If there are error messages, copy the full text and paste it here.

The method initialize(String, int) in the type Coder is not applicable for the arguments (String)

The args: (String) being passed to the method does not match the what the method declaration requires: (String, int)
"Bill, 59" is a String (enclosed in "s)
change the String to a String: "Bill" and an int: 59 ("Bill", 59)