Chapter 4. Classes: The Basics
Overview of Classes
In the previous chapter, you saw that C# provides six user-defined types. The most important of these, and the one I will cover first, is the class. Since the topic of classes in C# is a large one, its discussion will be spread over the next several chapters.
A Class Is an Active Data Structure
Before the days of object-oriented analysis and design, programmers thought of a program as just a sequence of instructions. The focus at that time was on structuring and optimizing those instructions. With the advent of the object-oriented paradigm, the focus changed from optimizing instructions to organizing a program's data and functions into encapsulated sets of logically related data items and functions, ...
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