Chapter 10. Objects and Classes

In this chapter you’ll learn about the following:

• Procedural and object-oriented programming

• The concept of classes

• How to define and implement a class

• Public and private class access

• Class data members

• Class methods (also called class function members)

• Creating and using class objects

• Class constructors and destructors

• const member functions

• The this pointer

• Creating arrays of objects

• Class scope

• Abstract data types

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a particular conceptual approach to designing programs, and C++ has enhanced C with features that ease the way to applying that approach. The following are the most important OOP features:

• Abstraction

• Encapsulation and data hiding ...

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