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Lab 9 - Inheritance

This document provides information about inheritance in object-oriented programming. It discusses how subclasses inherit properties and behaviors from parent classes using the extends keyword. The superclass and subclass relationship represents an "is-a" relationship. The super keyword can be used to invoke constructors from the same class. The lab tasks involve implementing classes that demonstrate inheritance and using the super and this keywords.

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Lab 9 - Inheritance

This document provides information about inheritance in object-oriented programming. It discusses how subclasses inherit properties and behaviors from parent classes using the extends keyword. The superclass and subclass relationship represents an "is-a" relationship. The super keyword can be used to invoke constructors from the same class. The lab tasks involve implementing classes that demonstrate inheritance and using the super and this keywords.

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CSE 215L: Programming Language II Lab

Lab - 09: Inheritance


Summer-2023
Lab Instructor: Md. Abdullah Al Sayed

Inheritance: In Object-oriented programming (OOP), new classes can be defined from


the existing classes which are called inheritance. More simply, Inheritance is a
mechanism in which one object acquires all the properties and behaviors of a parent
object. It represents the IS-A relationship which is also known as a parent-child
relationship. Inheritance has two purposes: reuse existing code, and reduce code
duplication.

Superclasses and Subclasses: Inheritance enables us to define a general class (i.e.,


a superclass) and later extends it to more specialized classes (i.e., subclasses).
Generally, when common traits are found among two classes, define one as
super/parent/base class and the other as sub/child/extended/derived class. A child class
can inherit the properties of the parent class and also can add its own properties.

Using the extends keyword: The extends keyword has been used to relate the
subclass with the superclass. For example, let’s say we have two classes, named class
A and B, respectively, where class A is the superclass and B is the subclass. Then the
Java syntax will be,
public class B extends A

Using the super keyword (this vs. super): The keyword this refers to the object itself.
It can also be used inside a constructor to invoke another constructor of the same class.
For example, the following code shows the uses of this keyword.
public class Circle { ● this keyword is used to reference
private double radius; the hidden data field radius of the
object being constructed.
public Circle(double radius) {
this.radius = radius;
} ● this(1.0), in this statement, this
keyword is used to invoke
public Circle() { another constructor.
this(1.0);
}
………
……...
}

Lab Tasks:

1. Implement the following classes and test their methods.


2. Implement the following classes and test their methods.

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