Final Draft of TTcards Card Objects Design

card.h

class Card
{
  unsigned int id;
  unsigned int level; // 1..10
  unsigned int type;
  unsigned int element;
  unsigned int power[4]; // clockwise; top, right, down, left
  std::string name;

  // Card ( id, level, type, element, power[], name );
  // getID();
  // getLevel();
  // getType();
  // getElement();
  // getRank();
  // getName();
};

class CardFace
{
  public:

  // CardFace ( Card *card );
  // draw ( int x, int y, SDL_Surface *video_buffer );
  // bool flipCard ();

  private:
    int id;
    int x;
    int y;
    int w = CARD_WIDTH;
    int h = CARD_HEIGHT;
    Card *card;
    //Sprite card;
};

class Pile: public Card
{
  public:
    // ...
    bool load_data ( std::string filename );
    add(Card *card);
    create(); // initialize stack
    shuffle(); // randomize pile
    getNext();
    list();
    std::vector<Card> stack;
  private:
    // ...
};

class Deck: public Pile
{
  public:
  // virtual Add (Card *card );

  // virtual create();
  // virtual shuffle();
  // virtual getNext();
  // virtual list();
};

* https://gist.github.com/i8degrees/5318675
    > SEXY TIME

* http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~budd/Books/oopintro3e/info/chap09.pdf 
    > (do note that the above class design is in C#) 

    > okay, so I did end up cheating on my test, but hey! turns out, this is
    indeed what I had already previously came up with independently during my
    first scratchpad "let's play with inheritance" session; I merely lacked
    the confidence to feel certain / ready to bet on my gut :>O

    > no idea how the hell I stumbled across this, other than it was by 
    accident, but it was a pure miracle that I did when I did!

    > okay, so if I'm confessing to one cheat, I might as well go full measure:
    upon reading the paper, I did discover that there was an "identical" c++
    design of what saw in the C# design, written by the same guy, merely ~15
    yrs apart in time. i have yet to cheat past the header files, and do not
    "need" to as of this time, even. simple stuff it is past the declarations.