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C# C# Objects Inheritance Inheritance

Travis John Villanueva
Travis John Villanueva
5,052 Points
Posted by Travis John Villanueva
Travis John Villanueva
5,052 Points

Inheritance- initializing the base class

I think i did my best, can somebody help me spit my error?

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

        public Polygon(int numSides)
        {
            NumSides = numSides;

        }
   }




    class Square: Polygon
    {
        public readonly int SideLength;

        public Square(int sideLength): base(int numSides)
        {
            Square square = new Square (4);
        }


    }







}

3 Answers

Travis John Villanueva
Travis John Villanueva
5,052 Points
Travis John Villanueva
Travis John Villanueva
5,052 Points

Thanks tree House Community. It is sinking in to me now :) Shout out to Luke, Alexander and Ford!

Alexander La Bianca
Alexander La Bianca
15,959 Points
Alexander La Bianca
Alexander La Bianca
15,959 Points

Hello,

You are calling the Square constructor in the Square constructor. Which is why this is not passing

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

        public Polygon(int numSides)
        {
            NumSides = numSides;

        }
   }




    class Square: Polygon
    {
        public readonly int SideLength;
//You got everything correct up to this point
//You want to create the Square constructor as follows:
//you want to give the square constructor a parameter for sideLength AND every time you call the square constructor 
//automatically call the Polygon Construcotr 'Polygon(int numsides)' since a square always has 4 sides, you enter 4. 
//all 'base(4) does is -> Polygon(4) to the same time you call the Square constructor
        public Square(int sideLength): base(4)
        {
            SideLength = sideLength;
        }


    }

//you could also create a triangle the same way
    class Triangle: Polygon
    {
        public readonly int SideLength;

        public Triangle(int sideLength):base(3)
        {
              SideLength = sideLength
         }
    }


}


Square mySquare = new Square(5); //a square with 5 sides
mySquare.SideLength // will return 5
mySquare.numsides //will return 4


Triangle myTriangle = new Triangle(5);
myTriangle.SideLength //will return 5
myTriangle.numsides //will return 3

Hope this makes a bit of sense understanding this

luke hammer
luke hammer
25,513 Points
luke hammer
luke hammer
25,513 Points

ok you are a lot closer in this example vs. other question.

on the line 

        public Square(int sideLength): base(int numSides)

you do not need the type on the base class. and this is where you define the number of sides.

thing of the area right after the ":" in 

public Square(int sideLength): base(int numSides)

as calling the parent constructor.

inside the constructor for Square you should only be working with the SideLength.

the number of sides is defined in the call to the base classes.