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Taxonomy

Pseudoclassical bees - get ready to learn some science

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 pseudoclassical instatiation pattern, inheritance, and subclassing.

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 Bees and are then assigned their specific jobs and tasks among other charactersitics. This means that characteristics are inherited from the classes above (although they can be modified on the current class level).

Resources

• Giraffe Maker - a MakerSquare repo on inheritance patterns
• Pseudoclassical Inheritance
• Object.create

Basic requirements:

Bower

• Don't worry for now about how Bower works. Just know that when bower install is run from the command line, the packages listed in bower.json will be automatically installed to client/bower_components.
  • If you don't have npm installed on your system, install it by running brew install node
  • Install Bower by running the following command npm install -g bower.
  • Use bower to install the client-side dependancies by running the following command from the root directory of the repo: bower install.

Sub Classing

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 can run by simply opening it in your browser and refreshing the page whenever you make changes.

Things To Note:

• This assignement must be written in pseudoclassical style.
• 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 pseudoclassical style, 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

Bee

• Create a Bee class, in pseudoclassical style, with:
  • call the Grub superclass
  • set the prototype
  • set the constructor
  • 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 pseudoclassical style, with:
  • call the Bee superclass
  • set the prototype
  • set the constructor
  • 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 pseudoclassical style, with:
  • call the Bee superclass
  • set the prototype
  • set the constructor
  • 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 pseudoclassical style, with:
  • call the ForagerBee superclass
  • set the prototype
  • set the constructor
  • 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