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Chapter 7. Classes

Until now, the focus of this book has been on functions and how to organize the actions of your programs. It is now time to look at organizing programs around data. Object-oriented programming (OOP) considers data to be more important than actions.

In this chapter, you will learn about

Constructing classes with member functions
The data access rules for members
Overloading method operators
Constructors and destructors
Separating an interface from an implementation

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