Question

Explain the following concept related to the object oriented programming:

Inheritance

Answer 1

Inheritance is a fundamental concept in OOP that allows a new class to acquire the properties and behaviors (data and methods) of an existing class. It promotes code reusability and helps in building organized and scalable programs.

• A child class (subclass/derived class) is created from an existing class.
• The parent class (superclass/base class) provides its members (variables and functions) to the child class.
• The child class can use, extend, or modify the inherited features.

Example:

class Animal {
public:
    void eat() {
        cout << "Eating..." << endl;
    }
};

class Dog : public Animal {
public:
    void bark() {
        cout << "Barking..." << endl;
    }
};