Inheritance is about the ability for one class to define itself as having all the properties and methods of a particular class, and then extending the definition of the base class by adding additional properties and methods.
A new class that is created by inheritance is sometimes called a child class or a subclass. The class you originally inherited from is called the base class, parent class, or the superclass. In some OOP languages, a base class may inherit from more than one base class. This means that if you had a Person class and a Car class, a Driver class might inherit all of the properties and methods from each of these two classes. In the .NET, JAVA only single inheritance is allowed, so each subclass will have only one base class.
A new class that is created by inheritance is sometimes called a child class or a subclass. The class you originally inherited from is called the base class, parent class, or the superclass. In some OOP languages, a base class may inherit from more than one base class. This means that if you had a Person class and a Car class, a Driver class might inherit all of the properties and methods from each of these two classes. In the .NET, JAVA only single inheritance is allowed, so each subclass will have only one base class.
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