Introduction to Programming: Additional work for week 16
Having looked at the second semester test for 2000, you might also like
to look at the second semester test for 1999, available
here. Part A of this test involves
the same "monsters" example as in the 2000 test, so is useful additional
execises on this material. Part B concerns lists, which we haven't yet
covered, so don't worry if you don't understand it (but it will help you
get some idea of material that's still to come in this semester).
The ability of Java variables to refer to objects of any subclasses rather
than directly of their own class is known as polymorphism and
we discussed some examples of this which came up in the test from last
year. Some notes on polymorphism in Java can be found on the web from:
Matthew Huntbach
12th Febuary 2001