C++: Inheritance

Question 1

What do classes gain access to when they inherit from other classes?

Answer 1

The public and protected objects and methods of the parent class

Question 2

How is inheritance defined in C++?

Answer 2

class derived-class-name: access-specifier base-class-name

Question 3

What does the access specifier affect?

Answer 3

The access specifier interacts with those used in the parent class and effect which attributes and methods the child class can have access to.

Question 4

What is the diamond problem?

Answer 4

A situation where a base class inherits from two classes, which both inherit from the same super class causing a diamond structure and the base class to have two instances of the super class.

Question 5

How do you resolve the Diamond Problem?

Answer 5

Using Virtual Classes, or applying the scope resolution operator.

Question 6

What is an example of an observer pattern?

Answer 6

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