Chapter 6. Objects and Classes

In This Chapter

• A Simple Class 216

• C++ Objects as Physical Objects 223

• C++ Objects as Data Types 226

• Constructors 227

• Objects as Function Arguments 233

• The Default Copy Constructor 238

• Returning Objects from Functions 240

• A Card-Game Example 243

• Structures and Classes 247

• Classes, Objects, and Memory 247

• Static Class Data 249

• const and Classes 252

• What Does It All Mean? 256

And now, the topics you’ve all been waiting for: objects and classes. The preliminaries are out of the way. We’ve learned about structures, which provide a way to group data elements. We’ve examined functions, which organize program actions into named entities. In this chapter we’ll put these ideas together to create ...

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