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Start your free trialSergio Romero
3,665 PointsOverriding Methods
I don't understand how to do this... can someone help and explain so I can better understand? Task: 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".
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)"
}
}
let fullName = Person(firstName: "Sergio", lastName: "Romero")
// Enter your code below
class Doctor: Person {
override func getFullName() -> String {
return "Dr. \(lastName)"
}
}
let someDoctor = Doctor.getFullName
2 Answers
Mitchell Henderson
iOS Development Techdegree Student 4,058 Pointsclass Doctor: Person {
override init(firstName: String, lastName: String) {
super.init(firstName: firstName, lastName: lastName)
}
override func fullName() -> String {
return "Dr. \(lastName)"
}
}
let someDoctor = Doctor(firstName: "Sam", lastName: "Smith")
Mackenzy Douyon
iOS Development Techdegree Student 2,913 Points//does not pass
enum Compass: Int {
case North = 1 case South = 2 case East = 3 case West = 4 } let direction = Compass(rawValue: 2)
Isaac Wong
2,106 PointsIsaac Wong
2,106 PointsYour subclass looks good but the instance should look like below and should be typed after the subclass.