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    The document discusses inheritance in object-oriented programming. It allows a class to inherit characteristics from a parent class and add its own unique features. Abstract classes act as a base for class hierarchies and cannot be instantiated on their own. While inheritance can make programming more powerful and reduce code, it should not always be used, and there are alternatives like association and aggregation to consider as well. A subclass should extend and be a type of its superclass.

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    The document discusses inheritance in object-oriented programming. It allows a class to inherit characteristics from a parent class and add its own unique features. Abstract classes act as a base for class hierarchies and cannot be instantiated on their own. While inheritance can make programming more powerful and reduce code, it should not always be used, and there are alternatives like association and aggregation to consider as well. A subclass should extend and be a type of its superclass.

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    INHERITANCE

    And further classes

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    3.1 INTRODUCTION
    Allows

    is to specify that a class gets some of its characteristics from a parent class and then adds unique features of its own. for richer, more powerful programming. us to write less code.

    Allows Allows

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    INHERITANCE OF VEHICLES
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    3.4 ABSTRACT CLASSES

    Act

    as a base for our class hierarchy. cannot be created from abstract classes. of animals.

    Objects Example

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    MULTIPLE INHERITANCE

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    GUIDELINES
    do

    not think that you always have to use inheritance

    remember

    that there are alternatives such as association and aggregation class should be a kind of its superclass class should be an extension of its superclass

    a a

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