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Chapter 12
Working with Inheritance
After completing this chapter, you will be able to:

Inheritance is a key concept in the world of object-orientation. You can use it as a tool to avoid repetition when defining different classes that have a number of features in common, and are quite clearly related to each other. 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 same, but also have other features that are diverse? For example, they all have an employee reference number, but managers have different responsibilities and perform different tasks than manual workers.

This is where inheritance proves useful.


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