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iOS Object-Oriented Swift 2.0 Class Inheritance Overriding Methods

Jonas Moltumyr
Jonas Moltumyr
1,939 Points

override class code challenge

This works in playground, it returns "Dr. Smith". It might be an even easier way of achieving the same thing?

Any thoughts?

Code 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".

classes.swift
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)"
    }
}

// Enter your code below

class Doctor: Person {
    override func getFullName() -> String {
        return "Dr. \(lastName)"
    }

    }

let someDoctor = Doctor(firstName: "Sam", lastName: "Smith").getFullName()

3 Answers

Steven Deutsch
Steven Deutsch
21,046 Points

Hey Jonas Moltumyr,

The challenge doesn't ask you to call the getFullName() method, just to override it. Simple fix.

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)"
    }
}

// Enter your code below

class Doctor: Person {
    override func getFullName() -> String {
        return "Dr. \(lastName)"
    }

}

let someDoctor = Doctor(firstName: "Sam", lastName: "Smith")

Good Luck!

Michael touboul
Michael touboul
3,053 Points

can you please tell me why a full string does not work ??? like this one:

```class Doctor: Person { override func getFullName() -> String { return "Dr. Smith" }

}

let someDoctor = Doctor(firstName: "Sam", lastName: "Smith")```

in Xcode it work's but doesn't solve the challenge!