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Teacher starts the discussion: The main objective of inheritance is to promote reusability and eliminate redundancy (of code). The basic idea is that a child class can obtain the features/characteristics of its parent class. In programming terms, we say that a child class is derived from its parent class. Therefore, the parent class is placed at a higher level in the class hierarchy.
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Sarcar, V. (2018). The Concept of Inheritance. In: Interactive C#. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3339-9_3
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