Inheritance (an intuitive description)

• Recall the Orange class

  • properties found in Orange are also shared with other Fruits (e.g. Apple, Banana, Pineapple)

• We associate behavior as well as state with with more abstract notions (e.g. Fruit). Oranges are a specialization of that abstraction.

• In OO programming inheritance is a relationship between entities referred to as parents and children where

  • the behavior and data associated with the child classes are always an extension of the properties associated with parent classes.

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