Inheritance
This lesson introduces the concept of Inheritance focusing on base and derived classes
What is Inheritance
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Provides a way to create a new class from an existing class.
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New class is a specialized version of the existing class.
Terminology
- Base Class(or Parent): inherited by child class.
- Derived Class(or child): inherits from base class.
Notation
Let’s take a look at the notation for these two types.
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