Call a child class method from a parent class object

Question

I have the following classes

class Person {
    private String name;
    void getName(){...}}

class Student extends Person{
    String class;
    void getCl         


        

Answer 1

A parent class should not have knowledge of child classes. You can implement a method calculate() and override it in every subclass:

class Person {
    String name;
    void getName(){...}
    void calculate();
}

and then

class Student extends Person{
    String class;
    void getClass(){...}

    @Override
    void calculate() {
        // do something with a Student
    }
}

and

class Teacher extends Person{
    String experience;
    void getExperience(){...}

    @Override
    void calculate() {
        // do something with a Student
    }

}

By the way. Your statement about abstract classes is confusing. You can call methods defined in an abstract class, but of course only of instances of subclasses.

In your example you can make Person abstract and the use getName() on instanced of Student and Teacher.