Object-oriented design choices

Section I: Stable Type Design

1. Contractual Design and the Class Construct

2. Ownership

Abstracted but Tracked

3. Data Integrity

Section II: Strategic Type Coupling

4. Composition

5. Inheritance

6. Inheritance versus Composition

Section III: Effective Type Reuse

7. Design Longevity

8. Operator Overloading

Appendix A: The Pointer Construct

Appendix B: Design Exercises

Appendix C: Comparative Design Exercises.