Chapter 9
A Case Study—A Card Game
In this third case study we will examine a simple card game, a version of solitaire. A slightly different rendition of this program was presented in C++ in the first edition of this book and rewritten to use the MFC library in another book [Budd 1999]. The program was translated into Java in the second edition and revised once again in Java in yet another book [Budd 1998b]. The program presented here is one more revision, this time translated into C#.
I have used this case study in so many different forms because the development of this program is a good illustration of the power of inheritance and overriding. We will get to those aspects after first considering some of the basic elements of the game. The complete ...
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