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Being a productive video game developer involves writing well-organized code that can be reused as often as possible. C++ classes provide a feature named inheritance that helps us achieve both of these goals. Inheritance allows us to create generalized base classes that can be derived from to create classes with a more specific purpose. In this chapter you learn how this allows us to share behavior among classes.
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Sutherland, B. (2014). Building Games with Inheritance. In: Learn C++ for Game Development. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6458-3_10
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