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Hands-On Object-Oriented Programming with Kotlin
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Hands-On Object-Oriented Programming with Kotlin

by Abid Khan, Igor Kucherenko
October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
370 pages
9h 15m
English
Packt Publishing
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The is-a relationship

Before moving forward, it is very important to understand how to find a relationship between different classes. How do we know that a student can be inherited from Person or that Circle can be inherited from the Shape class? If the designed hierarchy is correct, the child class must be a type of the parent class and both classes must have an is-a relationship between them. Take a look at the following examples:

  • Student is a person
  • Circle is a shape
  • Football player is a basketball player
  • German shepherd is a dog
  • Sofa is a bedroom

Most of these examples are correct but a few of them are completely false. Student is a person is correct because students have all the attributes and behaviors that a person has. Students ...

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ISBN: 9781789617726