Week 7 - February 19
  
Due Today
Preparation for Class
 | Bring any problems you are having with the assignments. |
| Look back over Chapters 6, 7, 8 and 9 and identify areas you would like to
have reviewed in the class. |
| Think about what sort of term project you would like to do. |
Topics Covered in this Class
Note: Since this is a review class, the topics and case studies listed are
indicative only. We will start by making a list of what you would like to have
covered in the class and try to fit it all in.
| Review Topics through Chapter 7
 | Understanding and writing declarations |
| References, reference arguments and return values |
| Allocating and freeing memory |
| Pointers, pointer arguments and return values |
| Use of const |
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| Case Studies in Data objects and Operator Overloading
| TimeOfDay (my sample program) |
| Complex (Chapter 8 assignment) |
| Array class (Chapter 8 example) |
| String class (Chapter 8 example and assignment) |
| Date class (Chapter 8 example) |
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| Inheritance Concepts
| Relationships between classes
 | "Is a" versus "has a" relationships |
| Model "is a" (generally) by inheritance |
| Model "has a" (generally) by composition |
| Other relationships |
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| Base and derived classes - Homework example
| Inheriting from someone else's code |
| Use of protected access |
| Overriding and adding member functions |
| Order of constructors and destructors |
| Use of base class pointers |
| Use of derived class pointers |
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| Another example - TicTacToe
| Creating a class hierarchy |
| Calling through a base pointer - which class? |
| Virtual functions |
| Pure virtual functions and abstract classes |
| Polymorphism Regained |
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Assignments
| Chapter 10 |
| Submit topic or proposal for Term Project |
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