Beginning C++23: From Beginner to Pro

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I. Horton, P. Van WeertBeginning C++23https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9343-0_12

12. Defining Your Own Data Types

Ivor Horton¹   and Peter Van Weert²

(1)

Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, UK

(2)

Kessel-Lo, Belgium

 

In this chapter, we’ll introduce one of the most fundamental tools in the C++ programmer’s toolbox: classes. We’ll also present some ideas that are implicit in object-oriented programming and show how they are applied.

In this chapter, you’ll learn

• What the basic principles in objected-oriented programming are

• How you define a new data type as a class and how you can create and use objects of a class type

• What the different building blocks of ...