Prep 3: Inheritance

This prep will introduce you to writing classes with inheritance relationships. When you have completed it, you will be able to:

• understand the concept of inheritance
• identify abstract methods and classes, and explain why we use them
• predict the result of calling methods in both superclasses and subclasses
• use initializers in both subclasses and superclasses to initialize attributes

Readings to complete

• 2.4 Inheritance: Introduction and Methods
  
• 2.5 Inheritance: Attributes and Initializers
  

Comprehension questions

Complete the Prep 3 quiz: Inheritance quiz on Quercus.

Synthesize (submit on MarkUs)

Please find our detailed instructions in the handout and the starter code, which you should save to your prep3 folder.

• Handout
• Hypothesis Quick Start Guide
• Starter code (rar)
• Starter code (zip)

When you’re done, submit your code on MarkUs. You can submit as many times as you like before the prep deadline; only your most recent submission before the deadline will be graded.

Please read the syllabus regarding lateness policies.