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Completely confused

objects.swift

class Person {
  let firstName: String
  let lastName: String 

  init(firstName: String, lastName: String) {
    self.firstName = firstName
    self.lastName = lastName
  }

  func fullName() -> String {
    return "\(firstName) \(lastName)"
  }
}

// Enter your code below

class Doctor: Person {

   override init(firstName: String, lastName: String) {
   super.init(lastName: String)
       self.lastName = lastName
   }

   func fullName() -> String {
     return "Dr. \(lastName)"
   }
}

let someDoctor = Doctor(lastName: "Smith")

fullName()

Answer 1 · 2017-09-09T18:12:58Z

September 9, 2017 6:12pm

Its already been initialized in the other class so you just need to override the function.

class Doctor: Person {
  override func fullName() -> String {
    return "Dr. \(lastName)"
  }
}

let someDoctor = Doctor(firstName: "John", lastName: "Doe")

Answer 2 · 2017-09-09T18:20:44Z

September 9, 2017 6:20pm

Hi Hasseeb, I can see your thinking but you don't need to write an overriding init method for the new class Doctor. The video before this makes it seem like you have to but the question doesn't ask for that. They want you to write an overriding method for the fullName() method that is written in the superclass Person we are inheriting from. Since all we have to do is override the method thats all we need to put in this new class. Then we use string interpolation to write a new string that omits the firstName stored property.

class Doctor: Person {
    override func fullName() -> String {
        return "Dr. \(lastName)"
    }
}

// We are going to override the method fullName in the Person class we are inheriting from 

}

The other part of the directions asks you to create a new instance for the class you just created Doctor. Since this class inherits from Person it will have the same init method. This is why you don't need to override the init method. Usually these questions will ask for you to use the new method you just created and call it on a new instance but this question only asks for a new instance. So just overriding the function and creating it in the Doctor class is enough. They want an instance of Doctor and for it to be assigned to a constant someDoctor

let someDoctor = Doctor(firstName: "Elliot", lastName: "Alderson")

Hope this helps !

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