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    AP Computer Science A Study Guide Unit 9

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    Inheritance

    Creating Superclasses and Subclasses


    ● Class Hierarchy
    o Common attributes and behaviors of related classes into a single class called
    a superclass.
    o Classes extend a superclass
    ▪ Known as subclasses
    ● Keyword Extends
    o Creating an inheritance relationship
    ● Class extends only one superclass.
    ● Multiple subclasses can extend a superclass.
    ● Subclass to superclass relationship
    o Forms a is-a relationship

    Writing Constructors for Subclasses


    ● Subclasses inherit private instance variables from the superclass.
    ● Constructors can’t be inherited.
    ● Instance variables are initialized from the parameters passed in the superclass from which
    we called the constructor.
    ● Superclass constructors continue until an Object constructor is called.
    o Doesn’t matter whether it’s called implicitly or explicitly.
    ● Example (part 1)
    class Human
    {
    private String name;

    public Human(String theName)


    {
    this.name = theName;
    }

    public String getName()


    {
    return name;
    }

    public boolean setName(String newName)


    {
    if (newName != null)
    {
    this.name = newName;
    return true;

    ● Example (part 2)
    }
    return false;
    }
    }

    public class Employee extends Human


    {

    private static int nextEmployeeId = 1;


    private int employeeId;
    public Employee(String theName)
    {
    super(theName);
    employeeId = nextEmployeeId;
    nextEmployeeId ++;
    }

    public int getEmployeeId()


    {
    return employeeId;
    }
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
    Employee emp = new Employee("Ella");
    System.out.println(emp.getName());
    System.out.println(emp. getEmployeeId ());
    }
    }
    Overriding Methods
    ● Overriding methods
    o Methods in a subclass have the same method signature.
    ● Overloading methods
    o Multiple methods have the same name but different parameter types
    o Different order of the parameters
    o OR the number of parameters are different

    Super Keyword
    ● Two uses of the keyword super
    o super();
    o super(arguments);
    o super.method();
    ▪ Calls the superclass method but not the constructors from the class.
    Creating References Using Inheritance Hierarchies
    ● Inheritance Hierarchy
    o Subclass inheriting from a superclass
    o Formed with an object
    o Objects at the top of the hierarchy
    Polymorphism
    ● Compile Time
    o Methods in the declared type
    o Determines the accuracy of a non-static call
    ● Run Time
    o Methods in the object type
    o Implemented for a non-static call
    o Known as polymorphism
    Object Superclass
    ● Object Class is superclass of all classes in Java
    o In the built-in java.lang package
    ● These are two Object class methods and constructors
    o String toString()
    o boolean equals(Object other)
    ● Subclasses of Object can override these methods with implementations that are specific
    to the class.

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