Null referenace issue

I am having problem understanding what is wrong with my scripts. they are assinged to the text objects in the project. (collectible counter) I have one of them working being the score. so that for each item collided wiht it goes up by 10. The score goes up by the collison the object gets destroyed. But the other counters do nothing yet have the scirpts on them.

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4. using UnityEngine.UI;
5.  
6. public class DiamondCounter : MonoBehaviour
7. {
8.  
9.     public static int diamondsCollected;
10.     Text text;
11.  
12.     void start()
13.     {
14.         text = GetComponent<Text> ();
15.         diamondsCollected = 0;
16.  
17.     }
18.  
19.     void Update    ()
20.     {
21.         text.text = "Diamonds: " + diamondsCollected;
22.  
23.     }
24.  
25. }
26.  

the editor keeps saying theres an error with this line.
text.text = "Diamonds: " + diamondsCollected;

the working score part is this code

Code (CSharp):

1. using System.Collections;
2. using System.Collections.Generic;
3. using UnityEngine;
4. using UnityEngine.UI;
5.  
6. public class ScoreController : MonoBehaviour {
7.  
8.     public static int score;
9.     Text text;
10.  
11.  
12.  
13.     // Use this for initialization
14.     void Start ()
15.     {
16.     text = GetComponent<Text> ();  
17.     score = 0;
18.  
19.     }
20.    
21.     // Update is called once per frame
22.     void Update ()
23.     {
24.         text.text = "Score: " + score;  
25.     }
26. }
27.  

 

In the first code the start() method begins with a lowercase letter and is likely not being called. I presume that without this the text property is null, hence when you try and access the text.text property you get a null reference because you can't access properties of null

 

Thanks turns out it was a quick fix had been going throught the code and must have overlooked it. Yes it was the start methods S.