1. Programming Techniques Course
Version 1.0
General comments regarding this course:
Many slides have speaker notes. They include: additional information, exercises “motivation”, didactical suggestions, references to relevant code projects, etc. It is recommended to go over the speaker notes along with the slides as part of the course teaching preparation.
Beside slides folder (printable) the following folders exist:
Source – all code projects correspond the code sections in the slides and more – see in comment 3. Students get this folder on their diskette.
Solutions – solutions for all course’ exercises. Recommended to provide them the solutions on R incrementally as the course advanced (when the exercise’ solution is presented).
ForExercise – Some exercise can be based on previous projects to enable the students concentrate in the real point of the exercise. They are provided in this chapter.
You can find the code projects relevant to each chapter under the chapter’s directory in the source folder. The code directory is sometimes split into few workspaces with significant names according to the topics in the chapter. Most of the code there appears in the slides as well however, it might be useful to use “real life” demonstrations. Though usually there are references from the speaker notes to the relevant projects it is recommended to go over projects of each chapter before teaching it so you can be sure that you are aware of all existing projects and find out which of them can help you.
Appendices:
Appendix A includes advanced topics which can be useful for high level students or as answers to advanced questions. Refer there to understand the structure of that appendix.
Appendix B includes bibliography as well as some relevant references in the internet.
Good Luck!

2. Chapter 7 – Inheritance Basics
Version 1.0
General comments regarding this course:
Many slides have speaker notes. They include: additional information, exercises “motivation”, didactical suggestions, references to relevant code projects, etc. It is recommended to go over the speaker notes along with the slides as part of the course teaching preparation.
Beside slides folder (printable) the following folders exist:
Source – all code projects correspond the code sections in the slides and more – see in comment 3. Students get this folder on their diskette.
Solutions – solutions for all course’ exercises. Recommended to provide them the solutions on R incrementally as the course advanced (when the exercise’ solution is presented).
ForExercise – Some exercise can be based on previous projects to enable the students concentrate in the real point of the exercise. They are provided in this chapter.
You can find the code projects relevant to each chapter under the chapter’s directory in the source folder. The code directory is sometimes split into few workspaces with significant names according to the topics in the chapter. Most of the code there appears in the slides as well however, it might be useful to use “real life” demonstrations. Though usually there are references from the speaker notes to the relevant projects it is recommended to go over projects of each chapter before teaching it so you can be sure that you are aware of all existing projects and find out which of them can help you.
Appendices:
Appendix A includes advanced topics which can be useful for high level students or as answers to advanced questions. Refer there to understand the structure of that appendix.
Appendix B includes bibliography as well as some relevant references in the internet.
Good Luck!

3. What is Inheritance A worker is a person
It inherits person’s characteristics
And may add some of its own
How shall we model this?
Class person
These are the objectives of a methodology that claim to be able to meet current software applications’ challenges. Fulfilling these objectives will enable coping with complex and scaleable projects in all their stages: analyze, design, development, manage and maintain.
All the project’s design and modeling points improves project’s construction, management and maintainability.
Class worker

4. Inheritance Concept Point Circle 3D-Point
Augmenting the original class
Specializing the original class
Shape
Point
Rectangle
Triangle
Circle
3D-Point
real
imag
ComplexNumber
RealNumber
ImaginaryNumber
imag
real

5. What is it used for? Code reuse
The same code is used several times and not copied
Polymorphism
Similar reference to objects from different classes
These are the objectives of a methodology that claim to be able to meet current software applications’ challenges. Fulfilling these objectives will enable coping with complex and scaleable projects in all their stages: analyze, design, development, manage and maintain.
All the project’s design and modeling points improves project’s construction, management and maintainability.

6. Define a Class Hierarchy
Syntax:
class DerivedClassName : access-level BaseClassName
where
access-level specifies the type of derivation
private by default, or
public
Any class can serve as a base class
Thus a derived class can also be a base class

7. What to inherit?
In principle, every member of a base class is inherited by a derived class
just with different access permission

8. Access Control Over the Members
Two levels of access control over class members
class definition
inheritance type
class Point{
protected: int x, y;
public: void set(int a, int b); }
class Circle : public Point{
… … }

9. Access Rights of Derived Classes
Type of Inheritance
private
protected
public
Access Control
for Members
The type of inheritance defines the minimum access level for the members of derived class that are inherited from the base class
With public inheritance, the derived class follow the same access permission as in the base class
With protected inheritance, only the public members inherited from the base class can be accessed in the derived class as protected members
With private inheritance (default mode), none of the members of base class is accessible by the derived class

10. Class Derivation mother daughter son
class daughter : public mother{
private:
double a;
public:
void foo ( ); }
mother
daughter
son
class mother{
protected:
int x, y;
public:
void set(int a, int b);
private:
int z; }
void daughter :: foo ( ){
x = y = 20;
set(5, 10);
cout<<“value of a ”<<a<<endl;
z = 100; // error, a private member }
daughter can access 3 of the 4 inherited members

11. Class Derivation mother daughter son
class son : protected mother{
private:
double b;
public:
void foo ( ); }
mother
daughter
son
class mother{
protected:
int x, y;
public:
void set(int a, int b);
private:
int z; }
void son :: foo ( ){
x = y = 20; // error, not a public member
set(5, 10);
cout<<“value of b ”<<b<<endl;
z = 100; // error, not a public member }
son can access only 1 of the 4 inherited member

12. What to inherit?
In principle, every member of a base class is inherited by a derived class
just with different access permission
However, there are exceptions for
constructor and destructor
operator=() member
friends
Since all these functions are class-specific

13. Constructor Rules for Derived Classes
The default constructor and the destructor of the base class are always called when a new object of a derived class is created or destroyed.
class A {
public:
A ( )
{cout<< “A:default”<<endl;}
A (int a)
{cout<<“A:parameter”<<endl;} }
class B : public A {
public:
B (int a)
{cout<<“B”<<endl;} }
output:
A:default B
B test(1);

14. Constructor Rules for Derived Classes
You can also specify a constructor of the base class other than the default constructor
DerivedClassCon ( derivedClass args ) : BaseClassCon ( baseClass args )
{ DerivedClass constructor body }
class A {
public:
A ( )
{cout<< “A:default”<<endl;}
A (int a)
{cout<<“A:parameter”<<endl;} }
class C : public A {
public:
C (int a) : A(a)
{cout<<“C”<<endl;} }
output:
A:parameter C
C test(1);

15. Define its Own Members Point Circle
class Point{
protected:
int x, y;
public:
void set(int a, int b); }
The derived class can also define its own members, in addition to members inherited from the base class x y
Point x y r
Circle
protected:
int x, y;
private:
double r;
public:
void set(int a, int b);
void set_r(double c);
class Circle : public Point{
private:
double r;
public:
void set_r(double c); }

16. Even more …
A derived class can override methods defined in its parent class. With overriding,
the method in the subclass has the identical signature to the method in the base class.
a subclass implements its own version of a base class method.
class A {
protected:
int x, y;
public:
void print ()
{cout<<“From A”<<endl;} }
class B : public A {
public:
void print ()
{cout<<“From B”<<endl;} }

17. Access a Method class Point { protected: class Circle : public Point{
int x, y;
public:
void set(int a, int b)
{x=a; y=b;}
void foo ();
void print(); }
class Circle : public Point{
private: double r;
public:
void set (int a, int b, double c) {
Point :: set(a, b); //same name function call
r = c; }
void print();
Circle c;
c.set(10,10,100); // from class Circle
c.foo (); // from base class Point
c.print(); // from class Circle
Point a;
a.set(30,50); // from base class Point
a.print(); // from base class Point

18. Putting Them Together Time ExtTime Time is the base class
ExtTime is the derived class with public inheritance
The derived class can
inherit all members from the base class, except the constructor
access all public and protected members of the base class
define its private data member
provide its own constructor
define its public member functions
override functions inherited from the base class
Time
ExtTime

19. class Time Specification
// SPECIFICATION FILE ( time.h)
class Time {
public :
void Set ( int h, int m, int s ) ;
void Increment ( ) ;
void Write ( ) const ;
Time ( int initH, int initM, int initS ) ; // constructor
Time ( ) ; // default constructor
protected :
int hrs ;
int mins ;
int secs ;
} ;

20. Class Interface Diagram
Time class
Set
Protected data:
hrs
mins
secs
Increment
Write
Time
Time

21. Derived Class ExtTime #include “time.h”
// SPECIFICATION FILE ( exttime.h)
#include “time.h”
enum ZoneType {EST, CST, MST, PST, EDT, CDT, MDT, PDT } ;
class ExtTime : public Time
// Time is the base class and use public inheritance {
public :
void Set ( int h, int m, int s, ZoneType timeZone ) ;
void Write ( ) const; //overridden
ExtTime (int initH, int initM, int initS, ZoneType initZone ) ;
ExtTime (); // default constructor
private :
ZoneType zone ; // added data member
} ;

22. Class Interface Diagram
ExtTime class
Set
Set
Protected data:
hrs
mins
secs
Increment
Increment
Write
Write
ExtTime
Time
ExtTime
Time
Private data:
zone

23. Implementation of ExtTime
Default Constructor
ExtTime :: ExtTime ( ) {
zone = EST ; }
ExtTime et1;
et1
hrs = 0
mins = 0
secs = 0
zone = EST
The default constructor of base class, Time(), is automatically called, when an ExtTime object is created.

24. Implementation of ExtTime
Another Constructor
ExtTime :: ExtTime (int initH, int initM, int initS, ZoneType initZone)
: Time (initH, initM, initS)
// constructor initializer {
zone = initZone ; }
ExtTime *et2 =
new ExtTime(8,30,0,EST);
hrs = 8
mins = 30
secs = 0
zone = EST
et2
5000
???
6000

25. Implementation of ExtTime
void ExtTime :: Set (int h, int m, int s, ZoneType timeZone) {
Time :: Set (hours, minutes, seconds); // same name function call
zone = timeZone ; }
void ExtTime :: Write ( ) const // function overriding {
string zoneString[8] =
{“EST”, “CST”, MST”, “PST”, “EDT”, “CDT”, “MDT”, “PDT”} ;
Time :: Write ( ) ;
cout <<‘ ‘<<zoneString[zone]<<endl; }

26. Working with ExtTime #include “exttime.h” … … int main() {
ExtTime thisTime ( 8, 35, 0, PST ) ;
ExtTime thatTime ; // default constructor called
thatTime.Write( ) ; // outputs 00:00:00 EST
thatTime.Set (16, 49, 23, CDT) ;
thatTime.Write( ) ; // outputs 16:49:23 CDT
thisTime.Increment ( ) ;
thisTime.Write ( ) ; // outputs 08:35:02 PST }