Java™ for Programmers: Deitel

9. Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll learn:

• How inheritance promotes software reusability.

• The notions of superclasses and subclasses.

• To use keyword extends to create a class that inherits attributes and behaviors from another class.

• To use access modifier protected to give subclass methods access to superclass members.

• To access superclass members with super.

• How constructors are used in inheritance hierarchies.

• The methods of class Object, the direct or indirect superclass of all classes in Java.

Say not you know another entirely, till you have divided an inheritance with him.

—Johann Kasper Lavater

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