Practice Why Use Inheritance? (1.2) - Chapter 12: Inheritance, Interface, and Polymorphism

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Question 1.
What is inheritance?
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Think of a family relationship.
Question 2.
Name one advantage of inheritance.
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How does it help reduce redundancy?
3Question 3.
What is the primary purpose of inheritance in programming?
- A) To create new methods
- B) To enable code reusability
- C) To make code slower
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Think of how classes can build on one another.
4Question 4.
True or False: Java allows multiple inheritance through classes.
- True
- False
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Consider how classes are structured in Java.
Question 5.
Consider a scenario in a zoo application where you have a superclass 'Animal' with a method 'move()'. Define a subclass 'Bird' that overrides this method to specify how birds move.
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Think about how the movement differs between animals.
Question 6.
In a video game context, define a superclass 'Character' with properties. Then create a subclass 'Warrior' that adds specific attributes and methods.
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Focus on what makes the Warrior special compared to a generic Character.

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