JavaScript Inheritance Example - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/JavaScript/Objects/Inheritance
function Person(first, last, age, gender, interests) {
this.name = {
first,
last
};
this.age = age;
this.gender = gender;
this.interests = interests;
}
Person.prototype.bio = function() {
// First define a string, and make it equal to the part of
// the bio that we know will always be the same.
var string = this.name.first + ' ' + this.name.last + ' is ' + this.age + ' years old. ';
// define a variable that will contain the pronoun part of
// the sencond sentence
var pronoun;
// check what the value of gender is, and set pronoun
// to an appropriate value in each case
if(this.gender === 'male' || this.gender === 'Male' || this.gender === 'm' || this.gender === 'M') {
pronoun = 'He likes ';
} else if(this.gender === 'female' || this.gender === 'Female' || this.gender === 'f' || this.gender === 'F') {
pronoun = 'She likes ';
} else {
pronoun = 'They like ';
}
// add the pronoun string on to the end of the main string
string += pronoun;
// use another conditional to structure the last part of the
// second sentence depending on whether the number of interests
// is 1, 2, or 3
if(this.interests.length === 1) {
string += this.interests[0] + '.';
} else if(this.interests.length === 2) {
string += this.interests[0] + ' and ' + this.interests[1] + '.';
} else {
// if there are more than 2 interests, we loop through them
// all, adding each one to the main string followed by a comma,
// except for the last one, which needs an and & a full stop
for(var i = 0; i < this.interests.length; i++) {
if(i === this.interests.length - 1) {
string += 'and ' + this.interests[i] + '.';
} else {
string += this.interests[i] + ', ';
}
}
}
// finally, with the string built, we alert() it
alert(string);
};
Person.prototype.greeting = function() {
alert('Hi! I\'m ' + this.name.first + '.');
};
Person.prototype.farewell = function() {
alert(this.name.first + ' has left the building. Bye for now!');
}
var person1 = new Person('Tammi', 'Smith', 17, 'female', ['music', 'skiing', 'kickboxing']);
function Teacher(first, last, age, gender, interests, subject) {
Person.call(this, first, last, age, gender, interests);
this.subject = subject;
}
Teacher.prototype = Object.create(Person.prototype);
Teacher.prototype.constructor = Teacher;
Teacher.prototype.greeting = function() {
var prefix;
if(this.gender === 'male' || this.gender === 'Male' || this.gender === 'm' || this.gender === 'M') {
prefix = 'Mr.';
} else if(this.gender === 'female' || this.gender === 'Female' || this.gender === 'f' || this.gender === 'F') {
prefix = 'Mrs.';
} else {
prefix = 'Mx.';
}
alert('Hello. My name is ' + prefix + ' ' + this.name.last + ', and I teach ' + this.subject + '.');
};
var teacher1 = new Teacher('Dave', 'Griffiths', 31, 'male', ['football', 'cookery'], 'mathematics');