Calling method wrong

Question

I'm learning JAVA and trying to make a program that sums and averages an arbitrary number of integers. I've made two methods for this, one that takes the number of entries:

private Scanner takeNumberOfEntries(){
    Scanner numberOfEntries = new Scanner(System.in);
    System.out.println("Number of entries:");

    while (!numberOfEntries.hasNextInt()){
        System.out.println("Enter the right format");
        numberOfEntries.next(); 
    }
    return numberOfEntries;
} 

and passes it on to another that reads the inputs and stores them in an array:

private void summingAndAveraging(Scanner numberOfEntries){
    int entryCountLimit = numberOfEntries.nextInt();
    int[] inputArray = new int[entryCountLimit];

    System.out.println("Enter the integer values");

    for (int i = 0; i < entryCountLimit ; i++){
        Scanner inputValues = new Scanner(System.in);
        while (!inputValues.hasNextInt()){
            System.out.println("fu k you, enter again:");
            inputValues.next();
        }

        inputArray[i] = (int) inputValues.nextInt();
    }

}

When I try to call it in main, I get errors. I've tried both:

    takeNumberOfEntries instant = new takeNumberOfEntries();

and

Scanner instantiation = new takeNumberOfEntries();

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Answer 1

You cannot instantiate a function. You have to instantiate a class then call a function.

public class Class {

public void function() {

}

public static void main(String[] args) {
    Class instance = new Class();

    instance.function();
}

}