Did you initialize the field 'numSides' to 4 in the base constructor?

Question

in the actual course from my understand i was initialize when the new square was created in the method. Im stuck on how this is done in the main method. ive been stuck on this for a day trying dfferent things. can anyone assist?

Polygon.cs

namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class Polygon
    {
        public readonly int NumSides;

        public Polygon(int numSides)
        {
            NumSides = numSides;
        }
    }
    class Square : Polygon
    {
        public readonly int SideLength;

        public Square(int sideLength) : base(numSides)
        {

        }
    }
}

Answer 1 · 2019-11-06T11:03:03Z

November 6, 2019 11:03am

Your problem is Square constructor. When you want to pass argument to the base constructor, you have to pass a specify number not numSide in this case , so this metod should look like this: public Square(int sideLength) : base(4).

Here is little more explantion: Square has constructor:

public Square(int sideLength) { }

It inherit from Polygon , so you can use Polygon constructor too. with : base () operator. In parenthesis you pass the argument to Polygon constructor which looks public Polygon(int numSides). You don't esspecially need to know about what name of argument it use. The important is pass INT type to this method. It can be a number or existing variable.

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Did you initialize the field 'numSides' to 4 in the base constructor?

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