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The main objective of inheritance is to promote reusability and eliminate redundancy (of code). Here a child class obtains the features of its parent class. By parent class we mean the class which is at the higher level in the class hierarchy compared to another class (which is termed as a child class)
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Sarcar, V. (2016). Inheritance. In: Interactive Object Oriented Programming in Java. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2544-8_3
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