Chapter 3. Introduction to Classes and Objects
Nothing can have value without being an object of utility. | ||
--Karl Marx |
Your public servants serve you right. | ||
--Adlai E. Stevenson |
Knowing how to answer one who speaks, To reply to one who sends a message. | ||
--Amenemope |
You’ll see something new. Two things. And I call them Thing One and Thing Two. | ||
--Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel |
OBJECTIVES
In this chapter you’ll learn:
What classes, objects, member functions and data members are.
How to define a class and use it to create an object.
How to define member functions in a class to implement the class’s behaviors.
How to declare data members in a class to implement the class’s attributes.
How to call a member function of an object to make that member function ...
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