This lab focuses on introducing students to polymorphism, early and late binding, abstract classes, and virtual functions through calculations on basic geometric shapes. Students will create a base class 'Shape' and derived classes 'Circle' and 'Rectangle', utilizing pointers to demonstrate static and dynamic binding. The exercise emphasizes the power of polymorphism as an extension of inheritance.

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Assignment: Lab 7 Polymorphism
Description: This lab introduces students to the concepts of polymorphism,
early binding, late binding, abstract classes, and virtual class functions. This
will be done in the context of performing calculations on basic geometrical
shapes. Polymorphism is a very powerful extension of inheritance, and by using
pointers to the base class, it allows access to derived class objects and their
functions based on the context that they are called in.
The lab will require the creation of a base geometric class, called Shape, and
two sub classes, Circle and Rectangle, that are derived public from the class
Shape. From there, objects of both the Circle and the Rectangle classes will be
created, as will an array of pointers to the base class Shape. By using the
instantiated objects and the object pointers, both static and dynamic binding will
be demonstrated.