Chapter 6. More OOP—Extending Classes
We now come to the second part of object-oriented programming where we cover another two parts of “A PIE:” inheritance and polymorphism. You need a solid understanding of these to successfully use the Java library routines. Despite the unusual names, they describe some clean concepts.
Inheritance means basing a new class on a class that is already defined to extend it in some way. Inheritance is what you acquire from past generations. Just as inheritance in real life is “what you get from a parent,” inheritance ...
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