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Well done! You learned a lot very quickly, so let’s do a review:

  • Inheritance is a way to avoid duplication across multiple classes.
  • In inheritance, one class inherits the members of another class.
  • The class that inherits is called a subclass or derived class. The other class is called a superclass or base class.
  • We can access a superclass’ members using base. This is very useful when calling the superclass’ constructor.
  • We can restrict access to a superclass and its subclasses using protected.
  • We can override a superclass member using virtual and override.
  • We can make a member in a superclass without defining its implementation using abstract. This is useful if every subclass’ implementation will be different.

Instructions

The completed code is provided for you here.

Make sure you are comfortable with inheritance before you move on from this lesson. Here are a few questions to test yourself:

  • In Program.cs, Bicycle.Describe() is called. Find the definition for that method in the Bicycle class, then find the abstract definition of that method in Vehicle.
  • In Program.cs, a Sedan is instantiated. Find the constructor definition in the Sedan class. What happens when that constructor calls base()?
  • In Bicycle.cs, SpeedUp() is defined. How is it different from SpeedUp() in the Vehicle class?

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