Lecture 14: Inheritance

Tuesday 03/27, 2007

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Assigned Reading:  14

Slides As Shown:

• Announcements, etc: [slide view] [print view]

• Inheritance : [slide view] [print view]

Topics Covered:

• Announced that Midterm Exam I will be returned during discussion this week.
• Discussed Project 3.
• Reviewed the idea of "genericity" from previous lecture].
• Disucssed the class derivation mechanism in C++ (see slides above). We used a Box base class and derived the Cube class from it.

  Programs shown:

  • Box class: Box.h, Box.cpp, boxtest.cpp and boxtest.txt.

  • Cube class: Cube.h, Cube.cpp, cubetest.cpp, and cubetest.txt.