Chapter 4. Inheritance, Abstraction, and Specialization
In this chapter, you will learn about one of the most important topics of object-oriented programming: inheritance. We will work with examples on how to create class hierarchies, override methods, overload methods, work with inherited initializers, and overload operators. In addition, you will learn about polymorphism and basic typecasting.
Creating class hierarchies to abstract and specialize behavior
So far, we have created classes to generate blueprints for real-life objects. Now, it is time to take advantage of the more advanced features of object-oriented programming and start designing a hierarchy of classes instead of working with isolated classes. First, we will design all the classes ...
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