5SOLVING PROBLEMS WITH CLASSES
In this chapter, we’re going to discuss classes and object-oriented programming. As before, the assumption is that you’ve seen the class declaration in C++ and understand the basic syntax of creating a class, invoking the methods of a class, and so on. We’ll have a quick review in the next section, but we’ll mostly discuss the problem-solving aspects of classes.
This is another situation in which I think C++ has an advantage over other languages. Because C++ is a hybrid language, the C++ programmer can create classes where appropriate but never has to. By contrast, in a language like Java or C#, all code must appear ...
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