C++ Primer, Fifth Edition

Contents

Section 15.1 OOP: An Overview

Section 15.2 Defining Base and Derived Classes

Section 15.3 Virtual Functions

Section 15.4 Abstract Base Classes

Section 15.5 Access Control and Inheritance

Section 15.6 Class Scope under Inheritance

Section 15.7 Constructors and Copy Control

Section 15.8 Containers and Inheritance

Section 15.9 Text Queries Revisited

Chapter Summary

Defined Terms

Object-oriented programming is based on three fundamental concepts: data abstraction, which we covered in Chapter 7, and inheritance and dynamic binding, which we’ll cover in this chapter.

Inheritance and dynamic binding affect how we write our programs in two ways: They make it easier to define new classes that are similar, but not identical, to other classes, ...