Chapter 8
Inheritance and Substitution
The first step in learning object-oriented programming is understanding the basic philosophy of organizing the performance of a task as the interaction of loosely coupled software components. This organizational approach was the central lesson in the case studies of Chapters 6 and 7.
The next step in learning object-oriented programming is organizing classes into a hierarchical structure based on the concept of inheritance. By inheritance, we mean the property that instances of a child class (or subclass) can access both data and behavior (methods) associated with a parent class (or superclass).
8.1 ⊡ An Intuitive Description of Inheritance
Let us return to Chris and Fred, the customer and florist from ...
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