Inheritance: Extending Animal Class

Learning Objective: Understand how to extend class functionality using inheritance

Overview

Inheritance is a fundamental concept in object-oriented programming that allows creating new classes based on existing ones. Child classes inherit parent class functionality while adding their own features.

Specifications

Create parent class Animal:

• Private field name
• Constructor accepts name
• makeSound() method: outputs "Some sound"
• getName() method: returns name

Create child class Dog:

• Extends Animal
• Constructor accepts name and passes to parent constructor
• Unique method wagTail(): outputs "Wagging tail"

In Main class:

• Create Dog instance with name "Buddy"
• Output name
• Call makeSound()
• Call wagTail()

Output Format

Name: Buddy
Some sound
Wagging tail