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Bees - get ready to learn some science, and ES6

Bees (the most noble of insects) progress through specific developmental stages over the course of their lifetimes. Each phase has specific traits and behaviors associated with it that are unique to that lifestage. In this repo, you will create bees of many lifestages while practicing the class syntax, instatiation, inheritance, and subclassing in Typescript.

Class Structure

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├── Grub
│   └── Bee
│       ├── HoneyMakerBee
│       └── ForagerBee
│          └── RetiredForagerBee

As you can see in the diagram above, all bees start out as a Grub, grow into a Bee and are then assigned its specific jobs and tasks among its other charactersitics. This means that characteristics are inherited from the classes above (although they can be modified on the current class level).

Resources

• ES6 Classes in Depth

Bare minimum requirements

npm

• After you fork and clone, run npm install is run from the command line to install all the project dependencies

ES6

The ECMAScript specification is a scripting language specification upon which JavaScript implementations (such as those found in web browsers like Chrome) are based. In June 2015, the 6th edition of the ECMAScript standard was finalized, and is commonly referred to as ES6.

ES6 introduces a wealth of new features to JavaScript while being entirely reverse-compatible with older JavaScript.

One exciting feature is the inclusion of a class keyword! This is a big change for engineers who write object-oriented code because it makes JavaScript look and feel more like a traditional class based language even though it's really just syntactic sugar. ES6 makes subclassing much easier as well with the introduction of the extends keyword. This sprint is designed to get you comfortable with this new instantiation pattern.

Subclassing

Build your first class in Grub.js. Grub will act as the superclass for all other types of bees. Work through the repo in the order specified below, making sure to pass all of the specs in test/index.html - which you should open in your browser when you run npm test.

Things To Note:

• This assignment must be written with TypeScript classes by using the class, extends, and super keywords
• Although there are multiple tests for each class, you will only be able to see one test at a time. As soon as one test fails the spec runner stops running and you must pass the current test to continue.

Grub

• Create a Grub class in TypeScript with:
  • an age property that is set to 0
  • a color property that is set to pink
  • a food property that is set to jelly
  • an eat method that returns 'Mmmmmmmmm jelly'

Bee

• Create a Bee class in TypeScript with:
  • the Grub superclass
  • an age property that is set to 5
  • a color property that is set to yellow
  • a food property that is inherited from grub
  • an eat method that is inherited from grub
  • a job property that is set to Keep on growing

HoneyMakerBee

• Create a HoneyMakerBee class in TypeScript with:
  • the Bee superclass
  • an age property that is set to 10
  • a job property that is set to make honey
  • a color property inherited from bee that is set to yellow
  • a food property that is inherited from grub
  • an eat method that is inherited from grub
  • a honeyPot property that is set to 0
  • a makeHoney method that adds 1 to that honeyBee's honeyPot
  • a giveHoney method that subtracts 1 from that honeyBee's honeyPot

ForagerBee

• Create a ForagerBee class in TypeScript with:
  • the Bee superclass
  • an age property that is set to 10
  • a job property that is set to find pollen
  • a color property inherited from bee that is set to yellow
  • a food property that is inherited from grub
  • an eat method that is inherited from grub
  • a canFly property that is set true
  • a treasureChest property that is set to an empty array []
  • a forage method that allows the bee to add a treasure to the treasureChest

RetiredForagerBee

• Create a RetiredForagerBee class in TypeScript with:
  • the ForagerBee superclass
  • an age property that is set to 40
  • a job property that is set to gamble
  • a canFly property that is set to false
  • a color property that is set to grey
  • a forage method that returns I am too old, let me play cards instead
  • a food property that is inherited from grub
  • an eat method that is inherited from grub
  • a treasureChest property inherited from ForagerBee that is set to an empty array []
  • an always winning gamble method that allows the bee to add a treasure to the treasureChest