C++ Primer Plus

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The first step in specifying a class design is to provide a class declaration. The class declaration is modeled after a structure declaration and can include data members and function members. The declaration has a private section, and members declared in that section can be accessed only through the member functions. The declaration also has a public section, and members declared there can be accessed directly by a program using class objects. Typically, data members go into the private section and member functions go into the public section, so a typical class declaration has this form:

class className{private:    data member declarationspublic:    member function prototypes};

The contents of the public section constitute ...