What Is Overriding?

When a child's class overrides a method, the child wants to do things differently than their parent. It's not necessarily because it has changed its mind about what it wants to do. It's just that the original implementation was designed for the parent class. Now that child is ready to take on some of its responsibilities. If you're looking at a code in which a method has been overridden, don't worry! That means they still need to move on from everything they knew before. They're taking on more responsibilities and becoming more self-sufficient. The override keyword is a way to change the implementation of a method defined in the parent class. In Java, you can override methods in two ways, private and protected, and any subclass can override package-private plans. To do this, declare the process in the subclass with the same signature. The new definition will replace the old one. Public methods cannot be overridden because they are already public and accessible from everywhere. You can only override them if you make them protected or package private and then declare them as public in the subclass. When a method is invoked, the invoked version is set on by the class object, then the child class version of the way is executed. The parent class version is completed if the parent class object is used to gather the process. The key here is that you can't just invoke a method on any object. You must use a thing from that class! C++ is a language that has many features. It's so flexible that you can even override methods! Well, sort of. You have to explicitly use the keywords 'override' and 'virtual' for it to work. If you do that, it will work. It will throw an error. On the other hand, Java uses the keyword 'super' to invoke its superclass method. However, C++ does not have this keyword and instead uses the base class name followed by the scope resolution operator (::)