This entry is designed to give a basic overview of one of the many uses of Abstraction. By designing your program to take advantage of abstraction, you are decreasing the amount of overhead by "hiding" implementation. I will use a purely logical example to illustrate this point.

You have an office building with many different...

Inheritence allows our data structures to inherit certain member variables from a Base/Parent structure. In this entry I will only use public accessors, we will keep the topic of protected and private accessors for a later entry. When you build and run this program, you will notice the order in which output occurs. When we initialize our...

A couple of entries ago I began to talk about Stacks. A slightly more difficult topic involves Queues. Where in a stack, data is incremented from the back and removed from the back, a queue adds data to the back and removes it from the front. Below is an example of a queue, documented throughout. If there are any questions feel free to PM or...

Now that a few entries have been posted in regards to OOP we can move on to the topic of copy constuctors. Say we would like to create a bit-wise copy of an object, while performing operations on the copy and keeping the original object intact? This is exactly what our copy constructor will do. Below is a snippet of code that I hope you will find...

I am in the process of re-writing this code to utilize OOP, but in the mean time here it is utilizing Procedural Programming. I wrote this program to simplify a problem I often faced when studying for my Network+ exam. Converting a decimal IP address into it's Base 2 form. The purpose of this was to be able to subnet. Of course, I could have...