Object-oriented Programming Using C++ and Java

10

Classes

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of this chapter, you should be able to

• Write C++ programs using classes and objects.

• Understand concepts of constructors, destructors, and member data and functions.

• Understand container classes and their usage.

• Understand friend functions and inline functions.

• Understand objects and dynamic memory usage with pointers and reference.

• Understand this operator and static declarations and their usage.

10.1 Introduction

We use class in C++ to define our own data type. A class is a derived data type like an array. The difference is that in an array you have single data type, while in a class data type you can have different data types. These different data types can be intrinsic data types such as int, ...