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Calvin Liem
3,599 Pointshelp with challenge
I've provided a base class Person in the editor below. Once an instance of Person is created, you can call getFullName() and get a person's full name.
Your job is to create a class named Doctor that overrides the getFullName() method. Once you have a class definition, create an instance and assign it to a constant named someDoctor.
For example, given the first name "Sam", and last name "Smith", calling getFullName() on an instance of Person would return "Sam Smith", but calling the same method on an instance of Doctor would return "Dr. Smith".
why do we need to overide the func getFullName()
can't we just make empty sub class of Doctor like this?
i don't know what to type in overide func getFullName() i ended up with writing the same code as parentclass func getFullName()
can somebody help me
class Person {
let firstName: String
let lastName: String
init(firstName: String, lastName: String) {
self.firstName = firstName
self.lastName = lastName
}
func getFullName() -> String {
return "\(firstName) \(lastName)"
}
}
class Doctor: Person {
}
let someDoctor = Doctor(firstName: "Dr.", lastName: "Smith")
print (someDoctor.getFullName())
// Enter your code below
2 Answers
gianpierovecchi
15,043 Pointsthe idea should to change the behaviour of the doctor class with the same parameters. So "inside" the doctor class you use the "override" keyword to say the compiler that you want to override the parent method.
Try this:
class Doctor: Person {
override func getFullName() -> String {
return "Dr. \(lastName)"
}
}
let someDoctor = Doctor(firstName: "Sam", lastName: "Smith")
print (someDoctor.getFullName())
This will return "Dr. Smith" because it's a doctor class; if you use a Person class with the same parameters values it will return "Sam Smith"
Calvin Liem
3,599 Pointsowh i get the idea now.. thanks
Greg Kaleka
39,021 PointsGreg Kaleka
39,021 PointsYep - this is not only the correct solution for the challenge, but it's also the "proper" way to do it. Dr. Sam Smith's first name is not Dr. Imagine you had an app and in some cases you wanted to use the user's full name, but in others you wanted to just use the first name. You wouldn't want to use "Dr." in those cases.