Who is Method Overriding?

Method overriding is when a child uses its own special version of something that was already used by its parent.

Imagine you and your friend both have a toy robot. Your robot says "Hello!" when it starts up. But your friend’s robot has been upgraded, it now says "Hi there!" instead. Even though both robots do the same job (greeting), your friend's version is different.

This is like method overriding in programming. The parent class (like your robot) has a method that does something, and the child class (like your friend’s robot) changes it to work differently, but keeps the same name.

Think of it like this:

• Your mom makes chocolate cake every Sunday.
• One day, you decide to make vanilla cake instead.

You're still making a cake (same task), but your version is different.

In coding terms:

• Mom's makeCake() method = chocolate cake
• Your makeCake() method = vanilla cake

The name of the action is the same, but the way it’s done changes, just like in method overriding!