When to use Inheritance!
• Realize the inheritance will complicate your design
• Use it only if it is required by your design
• Use it to express differences in behavior of classes that are derived from
a common base class
• The clearest designs add new capabilities to inherited ones
• Poor designs remove old capabilities during inheritance without adding
new ones
• Realize that a LIST “is Not a” Node
• Implementation rules for this course:
• No global objects
• Avoid magic numbers (hardwired into the code)
• No string classes allowed
• Use comments liberally
• Remember your code is read much more than it is written!!