Java Error illegal start of expression

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I m basically refining  completing and trying to compile a test code from a reference book for java beginners  The objective is to create a guessing game wherein the target is located in 3 continuous cells  I m holding the locations in an array  and the user guesses the cell no  to destroy the target cell by cell   I checked out half a dozen posts here on the same error  but I couldn t figure out what was going wrong   This is my error   test java 5  error  illegal start of expression  public int   locations  1 2 3      1 error   and my code is   public class test           public static void main String   args                test dot new test                public int   locations  1 2 3                dot setLocationCells locations                String userGuess  2               String result   dot checkYourself userGuess               String testResult  failed                if result equals  hit                     testResult  passed                             System out println testResult              public String checkYourself String stringGuess           int guess Integer parseInt stringGuess           String result  miss           int numOfHits 0           for int cell locations               if guess  cell                   result  hit                   numOfHits                    break                                           if numOfHits  locations length               result  kill                         System out println result          return result          public void setLocationCells  int   locations           int   locns          locns locations

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Declare   public static int   locations  1 2 3     outside of the main method

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public static int    locations  1 2 3    public static test dot new test      Declare the above variables above the main method and the code compiles fine    public static void main String   args

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Methods can only declare local variables  That is why the compiler reports an error when you try to declare it as public    In the case of local variables you can not use any kind of accessor  public  protected or private    You should also know what the static keyword means  In method checkYourself  you use the Integer array locations   The static keyword distinct the elements that are accessible with object creation  Therefore they are not part of the object itself    public class Test     Capitalized name for classes are used in Java    private final init   locations    key final mean that  is must be assigned before object is constructed and can not be changed later       public Test int   locations          this locations   locations   To access to class member  when method argument has the same name use  this  key word            public boolean checkYourSelf int value      This method is accessed only from a object        for int location   locations             if location    value                return true    When you use key word return insied of loop you exit from it  In this case you exit also from whole method                           return false    Method should be simple and perform one task  So you can get more flexibility           public static int   locations    1 2 3    This is static array that is not part of object  but can be used in it       public static void main String   args      This is declaration of public method that is not part of create object  It can be accessed from every place        Test test   new Test Test locations     We declare variable test  and create new instance  object  of class Test          String result        if test checkYourSelf 2      We moved outside the string         result    Hurray                   else           result    Try again                System out println result     We have only one place where write is done  Easy to change in future

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Remove the public keyword from int   locations  1 2 3    An access modifier isn t allowed inside a method  as its accessbility is defined by its method scope   If your goal is to use this reference in many a method  you might want to move the declaration outside the method

[java] Java Error: illegal start of expression

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