Adding methods and attributes
Now you'll start by creating methods that set attributes, and then add a few methods that manipulate them.
As mentioned in the first video, an object-oriented approach is most useful when your code involves complex interactions of many objects. In real production code, classes can have dozens of attributes and methods with complicated logic, but the underlying structure is the same as with the most simple class.
Your classes in this course will only have a few attributes and short methods, but the organizational principles behind them will be directly translatable to more complicated code.
This exercise is part of the course
Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming in Python
Exercise instructions
- Add another method to the
Employeeclass calledset_salary()that will set thesalaryattribute of an object to thenew_salaryargument passed to the method. - Call the
empobject's.set_name()method, assigning the value'Korel Rossi'. - Call the method on the
empobject and set the salary to50000. - Print the
salaryattribute of theempobject.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
class Employee:
def set_name(self, new_name):
self.name = new_name
# Add set_salary() method
def ____(____, ____):
____.____ = ____
emp = Employee()
# Use set_name to set the name of emp to 'Korel Rossi'
emp.____('____')
# Set the salary of emp to 50000
____.____(____)
# Print the emp object's salary
print(____)