Classes and Inheritance

Explore how to create and manage Python classes, understand inheritance to share variables and methods, and use object-oriented concepts like instances and self to build flexible programs.

We'll cover the following...

- Class definition
  - Defining a class
- Introduction to inheritance
- Introduction to the object class

Class definition

A class describes a new type of object and bundles together the methods needed to work with objects of that type. Here is an analogy: a class is like a cake recipe, while objects are the cakes you can make by following the recipe.

Defining a class

The syntax for defining a class is

class ClassName(superclass):
 variable and method definitions

Introduction to inheritance

Every class (except the object class) has a superclasssuperclass, and it inherits variables and methods from that superclass. That is, all variables and methods defined ...

1.Introduction

2.The Absolute Bare Minimum

3.Better Tools

4.Classes

5.Getting Fancy

6.Testing

7.Graphical User Interfaces

8.Modules

9.Appendix

Assessment

Classes and Inheritance

Class definition

Defining a class

Introduction to inheritance