Antiquariate

Eintrag vom: 26.06.2013.

In object-oriented programming inheritance is the mechanism of basing an object or class upon another object (prototypical inheritance) or class (class-based inheritance) retaining similar implementation.

 

Inheritance focuses on the relationship between classes while polymorphism focuses on the behavior of objects. Both concepts play a crucial role in creating flexible and extensible code.

 

One of the major advantages of Object Oriented Programming is re-use. Inheritance is one of the mechanisms to achieve the same. Inheritance allows programmer to create a general or a base class first and then later extend it to more specialized class. It allows programmer to write better code.

 

Inheritance much like the name implies focuses on parent-child relationships between different objects. Polymorphism is a result of inheritance and refers to the process of a child class modifying what it inherits from a parent class.

 

In this article we will understand all the concepts of OOP's along with an example. Let's assume that we have a bird class and we are creating a list of birds. Let's understand the OOP's concepts used in this bird creation.

 

Inheritance is one in which a new class is created that inherits the properties of the already exist class. It supports the concept of code reusability and reduces the length of the code in object-oriented programming.