Chapter 5. Constructors, Inheritance, and Polymorphism: The Snowball Fight

With the ability to create custom objects, you begin your adventure into object-oriented programming (OOP). However, you have yet to learn some other very important characteristics of objects. In this chapter you will explore the essential techniques of OOP and learn how

• To write a constructor to customize the way a class is instantiated

• To overload constructors for flexibility

• Inheritance is used to reuse code

• Polymorphism is used in OOP