Hello there! Welcome to our lesson on understanding inheritance in C++. Today, we're going to explore an important concept in programming called inheritance.

Why Inheritance?

Kids inherit certain traits from their parents, like eye color or hair color. In programming, inheritance works in a similar way. It allows one class (the child class) to inherit properties and behaviors from another class (the parent class). This helps us write more efficient and organized code by reusing existing code.

By the end of this lesson, you will understand what inheritance is in C++, how it works, and how to use it to create organized and reusable code.

In C++, we use the : symbol to indicate inheritance. For now, we'll use the public keyword to specify public inheritance. We'll discuss other inheritance options in the next lesson. Let's look at a basic example:

In this example:

• Cat is the base class.
• Lion and Tiger are derived classes inheriting from Cat.
• Both Lion and can use the method from their parent class .