CSC 172 - Introduction to Algorithms and Data Structures

Dr. R. M. Siegfried

Assignment #8 p. 468-9/Programming Exercise #1

Due Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Define a class named Payment that contains a instance variable of type double that stores the amount of the payment and appropriate accessor and mutator methods. Also create a method named paymentDetails that outputs an English sentence to describe the amount of the payment.

Next, define a class named CashPayment that is derived from Payment. This class should redefine the paymentDetails methods to indicate that the payment is in cash. Include appropirate constructor(s).

Define a class named CreditCardPayment that is derived from Payment. This class should contain member variables for the name on the card, expiration date and credit card number. Include appropriate constructor(s).

Finally, redefine paymentDetails method to include all credit card information in the printout.

Create a main method that creates at least two CashPayment and two CreditCardPayment objects with different values and calls paymentDetail for each.

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