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C++ Primer Plus, Fourth Edition
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C++ Primer Plus, Fourth Edition

by Stephen Prata
November 2001
Beginner content levelBeginner
1128 pages
29h 12m
English
Sams
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Chapter 10

1: What is a class?
A1: A class is a definition of a user-defined type. A class declaration specifies how data is to be stored, and it specifies the methods (class member functions) that can be used to access and manipulate that data.
2: How does a class accomplish abstraction, encapsulation, and data hiding?
A2: A class represents the operations one can perform on a class object with a public interface of class methods; this is abstraction. The class can use private visibility (the default) for data members, meaning that the data can be accessed only through the member functions; this is data hiding. Details of the implementation, such as data representation and method code, are hidden; this is encapsulation.
3: What is the relationship ...
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