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JavaScript : Object-Oriented Programming
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JavaScript : Object-Oriented Programming

by Kumar Chetan Sharma et al
August 2016
Beginner to intermediate
847 pages
17h 28m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 4. Inheritance and Specialization

In this chapter, we will create a hierarchy of blueprints that generate objects. We will take advantage of inheritance and many related features to specialize behavior in each of the three covered programming languages. We will:

  • Use classes to abstract behavior
  • Understand the concept of simple inheritance and design a hierarchy of classes
  • Learn the difference between overloading and overriding methods
  • Understand the concept of overloading operators
  • Understand polymorphism
  • Take advantage of the prototype chain to use inheritance in JavaScript

Using classes to abstract behavior

So far, we have been creating classes on Python and C# to generate blueprints for real-life objects. In JavaScript we have been using constructor ...

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