Base Class and Derived Class

In this lesson, we'll be learning about how a base class attributes are available to the derived classes and how to define base and a derived class.

We'll cover the following...

In the last lesson, we have seen that Vehicle class attributes are shared by the other two classes(Car and Ship).

Vehicle as a Base Class

We can consider the Vehicle class as a base class as it has common attributes.

Cars and Ships are considered as derived classes as they’re inheriting properties from vehicle class.

There are three modes of class inheritance: public, private and protected. The basic syntax for inheritance is given below:

class derivedClassName : modeOfInheritance baseClassName

We use the keyword public to implement public inheritance.