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Cohoon/Davidson: C++ Program Design, Third Edition
C++ Program Design, 3/e
James P. Cohoon, University of Virginia
Jack W. Davidson, University of Virginia
The class construct and object-oriented design

Chapter 7 Overview

Objects are the basic unit of programming in object-oriented languages like C++. Objects are models of information and are implemented as software packages that can encapsulate both attributes and behavior. The construct for defining new types of encapsulated objects in C++ is the class. A class is the “blueprint” from which an object can be created. In this chapter, we explain how to create these blueprints, or specifications of objects. We do so by showing the class declaration of a programmer-defined type that we used in previous chapters—RectangleShape.








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