Devry COMP220 iLab 7 Polymorphism Lab Report and Source Code

COMP 220 iLab
7 Polymorphism Lab Report and Source Code
Assignment: Lab 7 Polymorphism
Description: This lab introduces students to the concepts of
polymorphism, early binding, late binding, abstract classes, and virtual class
functions. This will be done in the context of performing calculations on basic
geometrical shapes. Polymorphism is a very powerful extension of inheritance,
and by using pointers to the base class, it allows access to derived class
objects and their functions based on the context that they are called in.
The lab will require the creation of a base geometric class,
called Shape, and two sub classes, Circle and Rectangle, that are derived
public from the class Shape. From there, objects of both the Circle and the
Rectangle classes will be created, as will an array of pointers to the base
class Shape. By using the instantiated objects and the object pointers, both
static and dynamic binding will be demonstrated.