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Inheritance and polymorphism in object-oriented programming

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Foundational

+10 XP

20 Mins

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Summary

In this tutorial, you’ll learn about inheritance and polymorphism, two closely related pillars of OOP.

Explain how inheritance is used to share functionality between a parent and child class
Define the relationship between a parent and child class, including what a child class can and cannot do with respect to its parent class. 
Recognize opportunities where inheritance could be used to simplify code.
Describe how polymorphism is used to modify parent class functionality in a child class
Describe how polymorphism can be applied at compile time (method overloads) and run time (method overrides).
Recommend a high-level system architecture for a given project

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Last updated: January 03, 2024

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Inheritance and polymorphism in object-oriented programming