Inheritance

Inheritance –

            Deriving/Creating a new class based on the existing one is known as Inheritance. For implementing inheritance 3 things are required -

1. Base Class
2. Derived Class  
3. Access Specifier

For Example –

class car : public vehicle

In the code given above, class is a keyword which is used to define a new class, car is the derived class, public is an access specifier and vehicle is the base class.