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Beginning C# 2008 Objects: From Concept to Code
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Beginning C# 2008 Objects: From Concept to Code

by Jacquie Barker, Grant Palmer
October 2008
Beginner to intermediate
680 pages
16h 48m
English
Apress
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10.11. Inheritance or Association?

One question that is often raised by beginning modelers is why we don't use an inheritance relationship to relate the Course and Section classes instead of using a simple association, as we've chosen to do. On the surface, it does indeed seem tempting to want Section to be a derived class of Course because all the fields listed for a CoursecourseNumber, courseName, and credits—also pertain to a Section; so, why wouldn't we want Section to inherit them in the same way that Student and Professor inherit all the fields of Person? A simple example should quickly illustrate why inheritance isn't appropriate.

Let's say that because Beginning Object Concepts is such a popular course, the university is offering three ...

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