Chapter 12. Working with inheritance

After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

Inheritance is a key concept in the world of object-oriented programming. You can use inheritance as a tool to avoid repetition when defining different classes that have a number of features in common and are quite clearly related to one another. Perhaps they are different classes of the same type, each with its own distinguishing feature—for example, managers, manual workers, and all employees of a factory. If you were writing an application to simulate the factory, how would you specify that managers and manual workers have a number of features that are the ...

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