February 2006
Intermediate to advanced
648 pages
14h 53m
English
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Chapter 7. Classes and Object-Oriented Programming
CLASSES ARE THE PRIMARY MECHANISM USED to create data structures and new kinds of objects. This chapter covers the details of classes, but is not intended to be an introduction to object-oriented programming and design. It’s assumed that the reader has prior experience with data structures and object-oriented programming in other languages such as C or Java. (Chapter 3, “Types and Objects,” contains additional information about the terminology and internal implementation of objects.)