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Lesson 4

This document provides an overview of Java subclasses, focusing on inheritance and method overriding/overloading. It includes exercises for creating a Phone class and a SmartPhone subclass, detailing required properties and methods. Additionally, it explains how to override and overload methods in Java, with examples for clarity.

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Lesson 4

This document provides an overview of Java subclasses, focusing on inheritance and method overriding/overloading. It includes exercises for creating a Phone class and a SmartPhone subclass, detailing required properties and methods. Additionally, it explains how to override and overload methods in Java, with examples for clarity.

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Lesson 4

Java Subclasses
● Recap

Overview ● Java subclasses


Recap
● Declare Java methods inside a class.

● Using methods to read/retrieve variables (getter methods).

● Using methods to write/change variables (setter methods).

● Calling parent objects method exercise


Java subclasses
● Allows us to create parent-child relationships through inheritance. (Is A)

● Code we’ve written in one class can be reused in another class without the need of
repeating/rewriting the same code.

● Allows us to re-define parent class methods inside the subclass methods.

● The class inheriting from the parent is known as the subclass while the parent class
itself is known as the superclass.

○ E.g.: A Duck class as a child (subclass) of the Animal


Java subclasses

public class Animal {


private String name; Superclass
...
}

public class Duck extends Animal {


public void quack() {
... Subclass
}
}
Class Demo/Exercises (Part አንድ)
● Create a class called Phone with the following properties:

○ String variable to represent the device’s make.

○ String variable to represent the device’s model.

○ Getters and setters for the above variables.

○ Default constructor that initializes all the values to blank or default values.

○ Argument constructor that initializes values based on the arguments to the constructor.

○ Constructor that accepts in arguments (name, mode).

○ Method called showDetails


Class Demo/Exercises (Part ሁለት)
● Create a subclass of Phone called SmartPhone with:

○ Double variable to hold the memory storage size (in gigabytes)

○ String variable to hold the Operating System name (Android/iOS/Windows Phone)

○ Default constructor that initializes the Phone and SmartPhone variables to blank/default values.

○ Getters and setters for the above variables of the SmartPhone class.

○ Argument constructor that takes in values for both the Phone and SmartPhone variables.

○ Bonus: int [ ] array value for holding the device’s resolution (width and height
Overriding /
overloading
class
methods
Overriding Java methods
Animal
public void speak() {

Cat extends Animal Human extends Animal

public void speak() { public void speak() {


System.out.println("Meow!"); System.out.println("Hello");
} }
Overloading Java methods
● Java allows us to define multiple methods with the same name doing slightly
different things. This is called overloading.

● Overloaded methods differ in the number, type and order of arguments (if
any).
Overloading Java methods
public class Person {
...
private String name;

public void speak() {


System.out.println(name);
}
public void speak(String text) {
System.out.println(text);
}
...
}
Class Demo/Exercises (Part ሶስት)
● Inside our SmartPhone class:

○ Override the showDetails method (inherited from the parent class Phone).

○ Have the overridden showDetails method first call its superclass version.

○ Have the overridden showDetails method display the remaining variables inside the SmartPhone subclass.

● Overload the following method of SmartPhone class:

○ Getter method for the memory storage size to accept in a boolean value named useMegabytes.

○ The overridden method should return a size in megabytes (if the useMegabytes value is true, or return the
original size in gigabytes (if useMegabytes is false
The End...
Questions?

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