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What is an example of class inheritance in every-day life which is easy to write in an object-oriented language?
This is a harder question than it seems if you want to get across the idea that a type hierarchy should contain variations but with the same interface. If the interface gets extended as you go down ...
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What is an example of class inheritance in every-day life which is easy to write in an object-oriented language?
I think that when dealing with new students the principle of inheritance is best explained with analogies to life outside of writing code.
I'm not so sure. I prefer to use application-centric ...
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What is an example of class inheritance in every-day life which is easy to write in an object-oriented language?
I've frequently used animals. They share some advantages over cups. First, there are a lot of them. Second, they already come pre-categorized into class trees thanks to hundreds of years of labor by ...
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