C++ Fundamentals

Chapter 3

Classes

Lesson Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

• Declare and define a class
• Access the members of a class using objects
• Apply access modifiers to encapsulate data
• Use the static modifier on data members and member functions
• Implement a nested class
• Utilize the friend specifier to access private and protected members
• Use constructors, copy constructors, assignment operators, and destructors
• Overload operators
• Implement functors

In this chapter, we will be learning about classes and objects in C++.

Introduction

In the previous chapter, we saw how we can use functions to combine basic operations into units with a clear meaning. Additionally, in the first chapter, we saw how, in C++, we can store data ...