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What is Inheritance?
Inheritance versus Containment
Superclasses & Subclasses
Visibility Modifiers & Inheritance
Final Classes & Methods
Polymorphism
Data Hiding & Encapsulation
Abstract Classes
Interfaces
Cloning Objects
The Collections Framework
Interfaces & Callbacks

The features that make a programming language truly "Object-Oriented" are usually considered to be inheritance and polymorphism.

Here we'll examine the concepts. 

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