In this chapter you’ll:

• Understand how inheritance promotes software reusability.

• Create a derived class that inherits attributes and behaviors from a base class.

• Override base-class methods in derived classes.

• Use access modifier protected to give derived-class methods access to base-class members.

• Access base-class members with base.

• Understand how constructors are used in inheritance hierarchies.

• See an overview of the methods of class object, the direct or indirect base class of all classes.