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IntroductionTitle: Inheritance

Class: Master Computer Science (MCS)

Subject: OOP using C++

Present by Zubair Farooq

Date 20 August, 2015


Objectives• Inheritance• Advantages of Inheritance• Why we use Inheritance?• FORMS OF INHERITANCE• Defining a Base Class• Defining a Derived Class• Visibility Modes• Inheritance Program example


InheritanceInheritance allows a software developer

to derive a new class from an existing one.


Inheritance

The existing class is called the parent, super, or base class.

The derived class is called a child or subclass.


Inheritance

• The child inherits characteristics of the parent.• The child has special rights to the parents methods and data.•The child has its own unique behaviors and data.


Inheritance

Inheritance relationships are often shown graphically in a class diagram with the arrow pointing to the

parent class.

Inheritance should create an is-a

relationship, meaning the child is a more

specific version of the parent.

Animal

Bird


Advantages of Inheritance?

Sometimes we need to repeat the code or we need repeat the whole class properties. So It helps in various ways.

It saves memory space.

It saves time.

It increases reliability of the code.

It saves the developing and testing efforts.


Why we use Inheritance?

To increase the reusability of the code and to make further usable for another classes. We use the concept of inheritance.


FORMS OF INHERITANCE

Single Inheritance:It is the inheritance hierarchy wherein one derived class inherits from one base class.

Multiple Inheritance:It is the inheritance hierarchy wherein one derived class inherits from multiple base classes.

Hierarchical Inheritance:It is the inheritance hierarchy wherein multiple subclasses inherits from one base class.

Multilevel Inheritance:It is the inheritance hierarchy wherein subclass acts as a base class for other classes.

Hybrid Inheritance:The inheritance hierarchy that reflects any legal combination of other four types of inheritance.


FORMS OF INHERITANCE

C# and Java support only Single inheritance, meaning that a derived class can have only one parent class.


Defining a Base ClassBase class has general features common to all the derived classes and derived class (apart from having all the features of the base class) adds specific features.

class Base-class

{

... ... ...

…….//Members of base class

};


Defining a Derived Class

The general form of deriving a subclass from a base class is as follows

Class derived-class-name : visibility-mode base-class-name

{

…… //

…….// members of the derived class

};

The visibility-mode is optional.

This visibility mode specifies how the features of base class are visible to the derived class.


Visibility ModePublic Inheritance

Protected Inheritance

Private Inheritance


Public Inheritanceclass A : public B{ // Class A now inherits the members of Class B

// with no change in the “access specifier” for

} // the inherited members


Protected Inheritance

class A : protected B{ // Class A now inherits the members of Class B

// with public members “promoted” to protected

} // but no other changes to the inherited members


Private Inheritance

class A : private B{ // Class A now inherits the members of Class B

// with public and protected members

} // “promoted” to private


Visibility Modes


Execution of base class constructor

When both derived and base class contains constructors, the base constructor is executed first and then the constructor in the derived class is executed.


Program Statement

Imagine a publishing company that markets both book and audiocassette versions of its works.

Create a class publication that stores the title (a string) and price (type float) of a publication. From this class derive two classes: book, which adds a page count (type int), and tape, which adds a playing time in minutes (type float). Each of these three classes should have a getdata() function to get its data from the user at the keyboard, and a putdata() function to display its data. Write a main() program to test the book and tape classes by creating instances of them, asking the user to fill in data with getdata(), and then displaying the data with putdata().

Reference: Object-Oriented Programming in C++ (4th Edition) by Robert Lafore(CH-9 Ex Question #1.)


Base Classclass publication{ char title[20]; float price; public: void getdata( ){ cout<<"Please enter the title and price of Book : "; cin>>title>>price; } void putdata( ){ cout<<"Book Title : "<<title<<endl; cout<<"Price : "<<price<<endl; } };


SubClassclass book : publication{ int pages; public: void getdata(){ publication::getdata(); cout<<"ENter the number of pages : "; cin>>pages; } Void putdata () { publication::putdata(); cout<<"Pages : "<<pages<<endl; } };


SubClassclass tape : publication{ float time; public: void getdata(){ publication::getdata(); cout<<"Enter time play in minute : "; cin>>time; } void putdata(){ publication::putdata(); cout<<"Playing time : "<<time; } };


Mian() Functionint main(void) { clrscr(); book b; tape t; b.getdata(); t.getdata(); b.putdata(); t.putdata(); getch(); return 0; }


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