Hi Tomas, I like animals too and was actually thinking of including that but was just too darned late for me at the time. lol! but agreed though, animals are good! Love the cat class! ;) Meow, purr, hiss! lol!
Anyway, I'll need to give Jacob's note a reread now that it's daytime. (Thanks Jacob!) I got what he was getting at. :) anyway, thanks for the note and hope you and everyone's Friday / start of the weekend is going awesome! Smiles, Cara :) --- View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ModelCara On Aug 9, 2013, at 6:20 AM, Thomas Ward <thomasward1...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Jacob, Well, I regret to say I think your discussion of utensils was more confusing than it needs to be. You lost me a bit there when discussing the utensils and I know what inheritance is. When discussing inheritance and multiple inheritance I think any examples should be as simple as possible to get the salient points across. That's why I prefer to use animals as a talking point. For example, a master class might be called animal. It would have functions for walk, swim, have hair color, etc. A subclass or child class of animal would inherit the functionality of animal, but add or build special functionality on top of it. Say a dog class would add pant, bark, wag tail, wine, etc. A cat subclass would inherit the animal class, but add special functionality like purr, meow, hiss, and so on. Each starts with animal as a base class, but builds on it and gets more specialized as you work your way down through the different levels. If I really wanted to I could further divide my code up into a master class like animal, then have a mammal subclass, with cat, dog, and rabbit, as child classes of mammal. That's the easiest way I know of to explain inheritance. Cheers! On 8/9/13, Jacob Kruger <ja...@blindza.co.za> wrote: > Might be a form of OT reply, but, when try to explain > entities/classes/object oriented programming to people, one of the common > examples I bring up to explain concept of parent-child/inheritance is > something like utensils - know sounds silly, but bear with me...<smile> > > As in, in the kitchen drawer you store utensils, and they all share some > similarities, like generally being made of metal, or plastic, but, then > there are some general attributes/properties that different utensils might > all have in common, like length, materials, colours collection, and targeted > > meal types/usage, or target ingredient types. > > Then when you take it further, there are, say 3 specific/separate types of > utensils - knife, fork, and spoon, and each of these children of the utensil > > parent class/object has a few of it's own specific forms of > properties/attributes - knives are of different types, and also include > further attributes/children types like steak knife, serration, edge type, > point type, and general functionalities, whereas forks would specifically > focus on something like shape of and number of points, and then with spoons, > > you might again have at least 3 child types - table spoon, dessert spoon and > > teaspoon, and all of these might, for example share a specific > property/attribute relating to cubic capacity, which would therefore have > been assigned to the spoon type/entity, etc. etc....LAM! > (laughing-at-myself) > > Stay well > > Jacob Kruger > Blind Biker > Skype: BlindZA > '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
