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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.
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class Vehicle {void move() { }}class Car extends Vehicle {}
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class Car extends Vehicle
The 'extends' keyword establishes that Car is a child of the Vehicle class.
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void move() { }
A method in the parent class that will be available to all child classes.