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C# C# Objects Inheritance Inheritance

Posted by Mason Austin
Mason Austin
3,365 Points

Have I missed something?

According to the question I have done what it has asked right? I have initialised the variable NumSides and set it to 4, I have initialised the Square class with inheritance from the Polygon class. The SideLength variable was created in the Square class and is public and readonly. I don't know what I have done wrong here

Polygon.cs 
namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class Polygon
    {
        public readonly int NumSides;

        public Polygon(int numSides)
        {
            NumSides = numSides;
        }

    }
    class Square : Polygon
    {
        public readonly SideLength;

        public Square(NumSides) : base(NumSides)
        {
            NumSides = 4;
            SideLength = sidelength;
        }
    }
}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,771 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
229,771 Points

There's a few issues:

  • you need to declare the type (int) of "SideLength"
  • the contructor's parameter name should be "sideLength" instead of "NumSides"
  • the parameter also needs to have a type (int)
  • "Numsides" will not be set directly, but by passing 4 to base ("base(4)")
  • the assignment has "sidelength" (lower case) instead of "sideLength" (with capital "L")