Chapter 17. Inheritance

In this chapter you will learn about one of the most important features of object-oriented design and programming, inheritance. The chapters is structured as follows:

First you will look at what inheritance is and how to use inheritance to model the real world. You will look at a few theoretical examples to understand the semantic meaning of inheritance. Next we will give an example of simple inheritance. You will learn what the syntax is for inheriting from a class and then some of the implications of inheritance on different members of a class. You will also look at how ...

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