Need for Inheritance

Need for Inheritance

Inheritance is an important feature of object oriented programming used for code reusability. It is a process of creating new classes called derived classes, from the existing or base classes. Inheritance allows us to inherit all the code (except declared as private) of one class to another class. The class to be inherited is called base class or parent class and the class which inherits the other class is called derived class or child class. The derived class is a power packed class, as it can add additional attributes and methods and thus enhance its functionality.