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Object Oriented Programming Terminology

Inheritance allows a child class to inherit attributes and methods from a parent class. The child class inherits everything from the parent class and can override or overload methods as needed. Data hiding with double underscores protects attributes from being accessed from outside the class.

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Object Oriented Programming Terminology

Inheritance allows a child class to inherit attributes and methods from a parent class. The child class inherits everything from the parent class and can override or overload methods as needed. Data hiding with double underscores protects attributes from being accessed from outside the class.

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