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Basic Inheritance

Inheritance allows a child class to inherit all accessible fields and methods from a parent class, promoting code reuse.

snippet.java

java

class Vehicle {
  void move() { }
}
class Car extends Vehicle {
}

Breakdown

class Car extends Vehicle

The 'extends' keyword establishes that Car is a child of the Vehicle class.

void move() { }

A method in the parent class that will be available to all child classes.