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Hour 16
Inheritance
It is a fundamental aspect of human intelligence to seek out, recognize, and create relationships among concepts. We build hierarchies, matrices, networks, and other interrelationships to explain and understand the ways in which things interact. C++ attempts to capture this in inheritance hierarchies. In this hour, you will learn
What inheritance is
How to derive one class from another
What protected access is and how to use it
What Is Inheritance?
What is a dog? When you look at your pet, what do you see? A biologist sees a network of interacting organs; a physicist sees atoms and forces at work; a taxonomist sees a representative of the species canine domesticus; and my mother sees dog hair and saliva.

 
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