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Exercise

Extending a class

In the previous exercise, you defined an Employee class with two attributes and two methods that set those attributes. Remember, methods are functions, so anything you can do with a function, you can also do with a method.

For example, you can use methods to print or return values, or to make plots, as long as the behavior is appropriate for objects of that class, e.g., an Employee probably wouldn't have a pivot_table() method.

In this exercise, you'll learn how to use existing class attributes to define new methods. The Employee class and the emp object from the previous exercise are in your script.py.

Instructions

100 XP
  • Add a method give_raise() to the Employee class that increases the salary by the amount argument passed to give_raise().
  • Create the emp object.
  • Print the salary attribute of emp.
  • Call give_raise() on the emp object, increasing their salary by 1500.