Announcements and Reminders
- Assignment 3 is due now
- Assignment 4 due next Tuesday
- Group Meeting #2 is due Saturday
- Women in Computer Science Club TEDx + Tesla Guest Speaker Event - Tomorrow 9-10 am (RSVP required Here)
- Two new examples on working with binary data were added to the course notes (pages 103-107).
Inheritance Review
Inheritance, virtual functions, polymorphism, abstract classes
Multiple Inheritance
Multiple inheritance permits a class to be derived from two (or more) other classes. In this way the derived classes inherits the members and properties of both (or more) base classes.
Example 9-1 – Multiple Inheritance
Multiple Inheritance with Virtual Base Classes
Example 9-2 - Multiple
Inheritance with Virtual Base classes
Dynamic Cast
A dynamic_cast is used with inheritance to cast a base class pointer or reference to a derived class pointer or reference. This is called downcasting. In order for this to succeed, the base class must be polymorphic (contains a virtual function).
Reference: Upcasting and Downcasting