Base Class and Derived Class
In this lesson, we'll be learning about how a base class attributes are available to the derived classes and how to define base and a derived class.
We'll cover the following
In the last lesson, we have seen that Vehicle
class attributes are shared by the other two classes(Car
and Ship
).
Vehicle as a Base Class
We can consider the Vehicle
class as a base
class as it has common attributes.
Derived Classes
Cars and Ships are considered as derived
classes as they’re inheriting properties from vehicle
class.
Modes of Inheritance
There are three modes of class inheritance: public
, private
and protected
. The basic syntax for inheritance is given below:
class derivedClassName : modeOfInheritance baseClassName
We use the keyword public to implement public inheritance.
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