Inheritance

One of the most fundamental object-oriented programming features is its capability to extend existing classes. This feature is known as inheritance and allows us to create a new class (child class) that inherits all the properties and methods from an existing class (parent class). Child classes can include additional properties and methods not available in the parent class. Let's return to our previously declared Person class. We will use the Person class as the parent class of a child class named Teacher:

class Person { public name : string; public surname : string; public email : Email; constructor(name : string, surname : string, email : Email){ this.name = name; this.surname = surname; this.email = email; } greet() { alert("Hi!"); ...

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