Skill Building Exercises

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1. Research: Procure a copy of James O. Coplien's excellent book Advanced C++ Programming Styles and Idioms and read it from front to back.

2. Default Constructor and Destructor: Given the following code for Baseline class:

   #ifndef BASELINE_H #define BASELINE_H class Baseline {  public:   virtual f();  private:   int x;   int y;   char* name; }; #endif

   • Add a default constructor that provides default values for Baseline attributes x, y, and name. Dynamically allocate memory for the name attribute.

   • Add a destructor that properly releases the memory allocated during the constructor call.

   • Write a driver program to test your code.

3. Copy Constructors: Building upon the Baseline code of the previous exercise, add a copy constructor that creates new Baseline objects from existing Baseline objects.

4. Copy Assignment Operator: Building upon the Baseline code resulting from the previous exercise, add a copy assignment operator to properly change the attributes of an existing Baseline object to those of another existing Baseline object. Keep in mind the difference between a shallow copy and a deep copy.

5. Overloaded Equality Operator: Building upon the Baseline code resulting from the previous exercise, add a equality operator so that Baseline objects can be compared with each other.

6. Overloaded Greater-Than Operator: Building upon the Baseline code resulting from the previous exercise, add a greater than operator so that Baseline objects can be compared with each other.

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