Visual C++ 2008: How to Program, Second Edition

Chapter 4. Introduction to Classes and Objects

	Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
	--Karl Marx

	Your public servants serve you right.
	--Adlai E. Stevenson

	Knowing how to answer one who speaks, To reply to one who sends a message.
	--Amenemope

	You’ll see something new. Two things. And I call them Thing One and Thing Two.
	--Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel

OBJECTIVES

In this chapter you’ll learn:

• What classes, objects, member functions and data members are.

• How to define classes and use them to create objects.

• How to define member functions in a class to implement the class’s behaviors.

• How to declare data members in a class to implement the class’s attributes.

• How to call a member function of an object to make that member function perform ...