[CS 61A SU26] Ants Problem Getting Started

[00:00:02]welcome to the getting started video for question nine of ants in this question you're going to be implementing the tank ants the recall from the previous question question 8 that we implemented The Bodyguard and which provides a defense for ants but the tank ant is a little better than The Bodyguard amp because it also provides some offense so just like The Bodyguard ants the tank ant is also a container ant and so it's going to protect an ant that it has in its place so it kind of wraps around an ant in its place and it also deals one damage to all the bees in its place each turn so just like any other container ants um it should have that same behavior it's going to allow the ants it contains the performance inspection so just like with problems six and seven you're going to have to implement this class from scratch so you're going to have to create a class header so I'm going to start out by writing out that closetter I should have the word class the word tank and your name and remember you have your inheriting class in front of you remember this tank end is going to be a containering so think about what in uh what class it would be beneficial for this ant to inherit from in order to make sure we minimize the amount of code we have to rewrite okay so think about what we want in here especially considering this is a container app and once we Define that you'll put that in here to represent that it's inheriting from that class and then you're going to write in your class attributes so you're going to give it the name name class attribute the implemented class attribute and then any other class attributes just like in question six and seven so fast attribute okay and then once you do that uh note for this question all you're going to have to do is write code inside of this tank and class and remember this is going to be a container ant so it's actually going to depend on the code you wrote in the previous question if you're writing this correctly of course um so if you're finding that um there's things you need to modify elsewhere you should need to make sure that uh somehow the tank ant is taking logic from the container and cost okay and then in the hint it says the only methods you're going to need to override in the tank class are going to be in it in action so once you write your class attributes the only other methods you're going to have to like redefine here are the init methods so in it here some arguments here and some code here and then you have your action method to override here with arguments and then some code and all you're going to need to do is with the init method um you just need to make sure that just like the class it inherits from um to initialize the ants so you should just use whatever class you inherited from um that the method of initializing the ad from there the reason why you need to override the inner method though is because the initial health of a tank at May differ so we're going to use that initial help to kind of initialize the ants here and you should look into inheritance and how we use parent class init methods to sort of initialize our amp once you do that you're going to implement your action method so again this is a container image so it should perform the same action as the container ant plus some additional extra features so you should start out by using action method of parent class so uh remember just like any other container ants this ant will allow the ant it contains to perform its own action and that should be already implemented in Logic for a question h a so when you wrote your container ants action method remember you already wrote the logic of having the contained ant performance function so you should have to rewrite that logic in question nine as long as you performed inheritance correctly so once you've correctly inherited that action method you're going to make sure to do the extra little feature that a tank hand has which is dealing one damage to all beings in its place each turn so what that looks like is basically just a go through all the being and if wait and then you need to feel one damage uh remember that just like with fire ant whenever you damage a bee um you need to also have the logic of having it possibly be removed from its place but remember there's already a method that handles this for us so use the um already implemented method to kind of reduce that beef Health by one and possibly remove it first place there should be a method you can call to deal with all this logic just to reduce that beat up and that damage your deal and it should be one damage but remember the damage of an ant is something that you define as a class attribute so if you look here with fire ants um you have your damage as a class attributes so I recommend that instead of just using the literal value of one as your damage deal damage using class attribute and remember you can Define that past attribute at the top just like with the fire ant um except for the tank bands and remember the damage of a tank end should be one and once you do that the entire tank end should be implemented