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Beginning C++ Programming

You're reading from   Beginning C++ Programming Modern C++ at your fingertips!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787124943
Length 526 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Richard Grimes Richard Grimes
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Starting with C++ FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding Language Features 3. Exploring C++ Types 4. Working with Memory, Arrays, and Pointers 5. Using Functions 6. Classes 7. Introduction to Object-Orientated Programming 8. Using the Standard Library Containers 9. Using Strings 10. Diagnostics and Debugging

Using polymorphism

In the following example, we will create code that simulates a team of C++ developers. The code will use interfaces to decouple the classes so that it is possible to change the services that a class uses without changing that class. In this simulation, we have a manager managing a team, so a property of the manager is their team. Further, every worker, whether a manager or a team member have some common properties and behaviors--they all have a name and a job position and they all do work of some kind.

Create a folder for the chapter and in that folder, create a file called team_builder.cpp, and since this application will use a vector, smart pointers, and files, add the following lines to the top of the file:

    #include <iostream> 
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include <fstream>
#include <memory>
using...
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