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That's using a metaphor to explain OOP, not teaching OOP modeling with examples from the physical world.

• dhimes 13y ago
  No, you can teach it that way.
  • saraid216 13y ago
    thomasz's point was that nothing in your example was "Human inherits Mammal". As kazagistar succinctly puts it, "Inheritance is not taxonomy." Your house analogy isn't taxonomy; that's why it's correct.