Simplifying OOP in Java: Method Overriding

Day 6: Method Overriding

After inheritance, the next important step is understanding method overriding.

When a child class inherits a method from a parent class, it can keep that method as it is, or it can provide its own version of it.

That is what method overriding means.

In Java, overriding happens when the child class defines a method with the same name and the same parameters as the one in the parent class.

class Vehicle {
    void move() {
        System.out.println("Vehicle is moving");
    }
}

class Car extends Vehicle {
    @Override
    void move() {
        System.out.println("Car is moving");
    }
}

In this example, Car inherits from Vehicle, but it overrides the move() method with its own version.

This is useful because related classes can share the same method name while behaving differently in their own way.