Overloading vs. Overriding

• Don't confuse the concepts of overloading and overriding

• Overloading deals with multiple methods in the same class with the same name but different signatures

• Overriding deals with two methods, one in a parent class and one in a child class, that have the same signature

• Overloading lets you define a similar operation in different ways for different data

• Overriding lets you define a similar operation in different ways for different object types

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