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Building Child Classes with this and super

โ˜• Java 17

A child class uses its parent's members, but not all of them, and sometimes two members share one name. Here you'll see how to reach private data properly, which modifiers a class itself can have, and how this and super point at exactly the field you mean.

In this series

# Page Reading time
1 Child classes and class visibility 3 min
2 this and super 4 min
3 Lab: premium plans with this and super 3 min

๐ŸŽ“ OCP 1Z0-829 candidates: exam traps and practice questions (optional)

Prerequisites: Building Classes on Top of Other Classes.

Code: Java17_Part_6_Object_Oriented_Basics on GitHub