Working with inheritance

- [Instructor] Inheritance is another fundamental principle…in object-oriented programming,…and it is when one class acquires…the methods and fields of another.…The class which inherits the properties of the other…is known as the subclass, or derived class, child class.…The class whose properties are inherited…is known as the superclass, or base class, parent class.…Every object in Java inherits from the object class…implicitly so that they can have basic features which,…according to Java, every class should have.…

Some of these include clone, equals, toString, et cetera.…In Java, the way we implement inheritance…is through the word extends.…A class uses the keyword extends…to inherit the properties of another class.…Although every object inherits from the object class,…we don't see this keyword extends because it is implicit.…However, let's see what it looks like…to use inheritance in a program.…Here we have an Insect class that lists out…certain methods and fields every insect should have…with a given implementation.…