10. Objects and Classes
In this chapter you’ll learn about the following:
• Procedural and object-oriented programming
• The concept of classes
• How to define and implement a class
• Public and private class access
• Class data members
• Class methods (also called 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
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 following are the most important OOP features:
• Abstraction
• Encapsulation and data hiding
• Polymorphism ...
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