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C# C# Objects Inheritance Inheritance

Posted by Michael North
Michael North
2,561 Points

I Dont understand

The checker is telling me to initialize numSides to 4, and I thought I did that please help.

Polygon.cs 
namespace Treehouse.CodeChallenges
{
    class Polygon
    {
        public readonly int NumSides;

        public Polygon(int numSides)
        {
            NumSides = numSides;
        }
    }

        class Square : Polygon
        {

        public readonly int SideLength;

         public Square(int sideLength) : base(numSides = 4)
        {
         SideLength = sideLength;
        }

    }
}

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,271 Points

You only need to pass the value as an argument.

The base constructor only takes one argument, and knows what it is for.

So instead of "base(numSides = 4)", you would write: "base(4)".