Top "Inheritance" questions

Inheritance is the system in object oriented programming that allows objects to support operations defined by anterior types without having to provide their own definition.

Why not inherit from List<T>?

When planning out my programs, I often start with a chain of thought like so: A football team is just …

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What is object slicing?

Someone mentioned it in the IRC as the slicing problem.

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How to inherit constructors?

Imagine a base class with many constructors and a virtual method public class Foo { ... public Foo() {...} public Foo(int i) {...} ... …

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Maven project version inheritance - do I have to specify the parent version?

I have two projects: Parent project: A, Sub project: B A/pom.xml: <groupId>com.dummy.bla</…

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When do I use super()?

I'm currently learning about class inheritance in my Java course and I don't understand when to use the super() call? …

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Chain-calling parent initialisers in python

Consider this - a base class A, class B inheriting from A, class C inheriting from B. What is a …

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When do I have to use interfaces instead of abstract classes?

I was wondering when I should use interfaces. Lets think about the following: public abstract class Vehicle { abstract float getSpeed(); } …

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Overloading and overriding

What is the difference between overloading and overriding.

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Interfaces vs. abstract classes

In C#, when should you use interfaces and when should you use abstract classes? What can be the deciding factor?

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How to call Base Class's __init__ method from the child class?

If I have a python class as: class BaseClass(object): #code and the init function of the base class And …

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