INFO1113 - Week5 Notes

Lecture

• Part A: Inheritance basics, Encapsulation, Programming Inheritance, Modelling an is-a relationship and UML
• Part B: Method Overloading, Constructor Overloading, try-catch nd exceptions

Inheritance

• Allowing resuability and changes to iherited methods between different types in a hierarchy.
• Syntax: [public] class ClassName extends SuperClassName
• protected access modifier (#): can be accessed by inherited classes

Overloading

• Java: able to use the same method name but with different method signature
• return type is not a part of method signature

Exceptions

• checked exception - try-catch
• unchecked exception (RuntimeException)

Tutorial