ICS 212: Animal Class

In this assignment from ICS 212, we were told to implement an Animal class that had various methods, variables, and instances of said object.

It started with the declaration of various variables, all protected as to not be accessible outside of the class and its descendants. Then the public methods that can be accessed from anywhere. Methods like eat, sleep, setcolor and get color can be used. Then respective dog and cat classes are made, extending the Animal class. They override the methods within the Animal class and modify them to whatever they are set to.

This assignment helped us to to get familiar with classes, inheritance, and privacy modifiers like public, protected, and private.

#include

using namespace std;

class Animal{ protected: string type, color; public: void eat(){ cout « “I can eat! Munch munch!” « endl; }

    void sleep(){
        cout << "I can sleep! Snoooze..." << endl;
    }

    void setColor(string input){
        color = input;
    }
    string getColor(){
        return color;
    }

};

class dog : public Animal{ public: void bark(){ cout « “I can bark! Woof woof!!” « endl; } void setType(string input){ type = input; } void displayInfo(){ cout « “I am a “ « type « endl; cout « “My color is “ « color « endl; }

};

class cat : public Animal{ public: void meow(){ cout « “I can meow! Meow meow!!” « endl; }
void setType(string input){ type = input; } void displayInfo(){ cout « “I am a “ « type « endl; cout « “My color is “ « color « endl; }
};

int main() {

dog pup;
pup.setColor("black");
pup.setType("mammal");
pup.eat();
pup.sleep();
pup.bark();
pup.displayInfo();

printf("\n");

cat kitten;
kitten.setColor("white");
kitten.setType("mammal");
kitten.eat();
kitten.sleep();
kitten.meow();
kitten.displayInfo();

return 0; }