Objects Relationship Types

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Containment

• Holds a
• Student holds a laptop
• Member variable of other class

Composition

• Has a
• Plane has an enginer

Inheritance

• is a
• Intern is an employee
• everything the other class has

Method paramter

• uses a
• Test palindrome using stack

Cardinality

• 1:1
  • non-pointer
  • pointer to 1
• 1:n
  • pointer to dynamic array
• 1:k
  • fixed-size array or multiple fields

Ownership

• I am responsible for new and/or delete