From the course: Learning C#
Join today to access over 23,200 courses taught by industry experts.
Inheritance
- [Instructor] As I said at the beginning of the course, C# is an object-oriented language which means that we can build class hierarchies using inheritance. In this video, we're going to use inheritance to expand the Book example that we've been using to represent other types of publications. So here, in the Inheritance folder, inside Classes in the Start folder, let's open up the Book class and we'll start here. So let's imagine that we want to create another type of publication called a Magazine. So one of the ways that we could do that is by creating a new Magazine class which I have here, and as you see in the editor, we could, within that class, define properties such as the publisher, the pagecount, and the price. And if we look over at the Book class, we can see that we have some similar fields. We've got the pagecount and the price. So we've created a problem, here. We've duplicated these fields and if we ever decide…
Practice while you learn with exercise files
Download the files the instructor uses to teach the course. Follow along and learn by watching, listening and practicing.
Download courses and learn on the go
Watch courses on your mobile device without an internet connection. Download courses using your iOS or Android LinkedIn Learning app.