Inheritance and Polymorphism
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Key Concepts
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Inheritance in Java
Main() method in Java
super() in Java
Protected and Final keywords in Java
Polymorphism in Java
Method Overriding in Java
Child Classes in Arrays and ArrayLists
Inheritance in Java
Inheritance in Java
// Parent Class
class Animal {
// Animal class members
}
// Child Class
class Dog extends Animal {
// Dog inherits traits from Animal
// additional Dog class members
}Inheritance is an important feature of object-oriented programming in Java. It allows for one class (child class) to inherit the fields and methods of another class (parent class). For instance, we might want a child class Dog to inherent traits from a more general parent class Animal.
When defining a child class in Java, we use the keyword extends to inherit from a parent class.
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