12. Two Complete OOP Examples
In the last two chapters, I laid out the basic syntax of class and object declarations. Now we’re ready to apply object-oriented principles to programs that do something fun and useful.
First, I’ll explore a Binary Tree example, which is one of the more intriguing and challenging topics in programming, and then I’ll return to the Tower of Hanoi puzzle from Chapter 5, “Function: Many Are Called.” The new version of the program uses character-based animation to show the puzzle solution in action.
But first, a few more preliminaries....
Dynamic Object Creation
Pointers have yet another use: constructing networks of objects. This is called dynamic memory allocation because it requests memory at run time, letting the ...
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