What is Inheritance?

• Inheritance is the process of creating a new classes from an existing class.
• The Pre-existing class is called base class or super class and
• the new class is knows as derived class or subclass.
• The newly created class have all the characteristics of its existing or base class and it can also add its own additional attributes and behavior too.
• Inheritance allows the extension and reuse of existing code, without having to repeat or rewrite the code from scratch