Fields

Inheritance gives a child fields of the parent class. * The parent class's fields are passed down to the child; the child inherits them from the parent class. * This is one of the main reasons to use inheritance, as it keeps us from duplicating code in other classes.

We can imagine our Employee extends Person class diagram looking like

The Employee class has all the Person fields, but the fields and methods only exist in Person.

Drill

Inheritance/com.example.inheritance.drills.Employee * Add a no-arg constructor to Employee. * Add a constructor to Employee with parameters for firstName, lastName, age, title, and salary. * Set the fields firstName, lastName, and age the same way as title and salary - using the . operator. * Add a method to Employee called public String getInfo() * Return a String containing the object's information in the format firstName lastName age title salary.

Inheritance/com.example.inheritance.drills.EmployeeApp

• Follow the instructions to create Person and Employee instances, and call methods for each.
• (Solution: Employee2.java, EmployeeApp.java)

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