Chapter 21. Class Programming Basics
Until now, you have used classes that other programmers have written. A class is a user-defined type, and an instance of a class is called an object. You have probably heard a lot of hullabaloo about object-oriented programming. Classes are the primary idiom of object-oriented programming; without classes, there would be no object in object-oriented programming. However, understanding the mechanics of object-oriented programming is not that hard. After this hour, you will know how to write classes; in essence, you will know how to write object-oriented programs.
The hype behind objects is real. It is so real, in fact, that most mainstream languages now try to support object-oriented programming, including languages ...
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