C++ Primer Plus, Fourth Edition

Chapter 10. OBJECTS AND CLASSES

In this chapter you learn

• Procedural and object-oriented programming

• The class concept

• How to define and implement a class

• Public and private class access

• Class data members

• Class methods (class function members)

• Creating and using class objects

• Class constructors and destructors

• const member functions

• The this pointer

• Creating arrays of objects

• Class scope

• Abstract data types (ADTs)

Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a particular conceptual approach to designing programs, and C++ has enhanced C with features that ease the way to applying that approach. The most important OOP features are these:

• Abstraction

• Encapsulation and data hiding

• Polymorphism

• Inheritance

• Reusable code

The class is the single most important C++ enhancement ...