C++ Primer Plus, Fourth Edition

Procedural and Object-Oriented Programming

Although we have occasionally explored the OOP perspective on programming, we've usually stuck pretty close to the standard procedural approach of languages such as C, Pascal, and BASIC. Let's look at an example that clarifies how the OOP outlook differs from that of procedural programming.

As the newest member of the Genre Giants softball team, you've been asked to keep the team statistics. Naturally, you turn to your computer for help. If you were a procedural programmer, you might think along these lines:

Let's see, I want to enter the name, times at bat, number of hits, batting averages (for those who don't follow baseball or softball, the batting average is the number of hits divided by the player's ...