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C# Intermediate C# System.Object Object.GetHashCode

can't solve challenge 1 of 1

Challenge Task 1 of 1

Add a GetHashCode method to the VocabularyWord class that returns an appropriate hash code. Important: In each task of this code challenge, the code you write should be added to the code from the previous task. Restart Preview Get Help Check Work VocabularyWord.cs

1 using System; 2 namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges 3 { 4 public class VocabularyWord 5 { 6 public string Word { get; private set; } 7 ​ 8 public VocabularyWord(string word) 9 { 10 Word = word; 11 } 12 ​ 13 public override string ToString() 14 { 15 return Word; 16 } 17 ​ 18 public override bool Equals(object obj) 19 { 20 if(!(obj is VocabularyWord)) 21 { 22 return false; 23 } 24 ​ 25 var that = obj as VocabularyWord; 26 ​ 27 return this.Word.Equals(that.Word); 28 } 29 } 30 } 31 ​

VocabularyWord.cs
using System;
namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    public class VocabularyWord
    {
        public string Word { get; private set; }

        public VocabularyWord(string word)
        {
            Word = word;
        }

        public override string ToString()
        {
            return Word;
        }

        public override bool Equals(object obj)
        {
            if(!(obj is VocabularyWord))
            {
                return false;
            }

            var that = obj as VocabularyWord;

            return this.Word.Equals(that.Word);
        }
    }
}

4 Answers

Chris Adamson
Chris Adamson
132,143 Points

The base class GetHashCode is declared as:

public virtual int GetHashCode();

For this exercise, since Word is the only member variable, it's easiest to just return the hashcode of the Word member:

        public override int GetHashCode() {
            return this.Word.GetHashCode();
        }

thank's chris

I typed the same but it hasn't worked. Only copy/paste helped.

I have found typing error in my code. Everything is perfect.