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Classes Object& Access Specifier

In C++, a class is a user-defined data type that serves as a blueprint for creating objects, containing its own methods and variables. Objects are instances of classes that allow access to the class's properties and behaviors, which can be manipulated through member functions. Access to class members is controlled by access specifiers: public, private, and protected, determining the visibility of class members from outside the class.

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Classes Object& Access Specifier

In C++, a class is a user-defined data type that serves as a blueprint for creating objects, containing its own methods and variables. Objects are instances of classes that allow access to the class's properties and behaviors, which can be manipulated through member functions. Access to class members is controlled by access specifiers: public, private, and protected, determining the visibility of class members from outside the class.

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In C++ programming, a Class is a fundamental block of a program that has its own set of methods and variables. You can access these methods and variables by creating an object or the instance of the class. For example, a class of movies may have different movies with different properties, like genres, ratings, length, etc. You can access these properties by creating an object of class movies. C++ Class Acclass is a blueprint for the object. We can think of a class as a sketch (prototype) of a house. It contains all the details about the floors, doors, windows, etc - we build the house based on these descriptions. What is a Class in C++? A class is a user-defined data type, which holds its own data members and member functions, which can be accessed and used by creating an instance of that class. A C++ class is like a blueprint for an object. For Example: Consider the Class of Cars. There may be many cars with different names and brands but all of them will share some common properties like all of them will have 4 wheels, Speed Fe eM CL cree eM ec thle (kOe SL OCS) Pan UL) Car is the class, and wheels, speed limits, and mileage are their properties. e AClass is a user-defined data type that has data members and member functions. e Nata maemhere Jeshe data variahlac e Data members are the data variables and member functions are the functions used to manipulate these variables together, these data members and member functions define the properties and behaviour of the objects in a Class. e Inthe above example of class Car, I atemer-Ut Mun lillec\mn UI Mels MC) e)-1216 8011 8 mileage, etc, and member functions can be applying brakes, increasing speed, etc. But we cannot use the class as it is. We first have to create an object of the class to use its features. An Object is an instance of a Class. Note: When a class is defined, no memory is allocated but when it is instantiated (i.e.,22-pbject is created) memor\4s lallocated. class ClassName { access_specifier: // Body of the class ere, the access specifier defines the evel of access to the class’s data class ThisClass { public: int var; // data member void print() { // member method cout << "Hello"; e can create an object of the given lass in the same way we declare the ariables of any other inbuilt data type. Member Functions The data members and member functions of the class can be accessed using the dot(‘.’) operator with the object. For example, if the name of the object is obj and you want to access the member unction with the name printName() then ou will have to write: obj ..printName() ee X94 1-5-3990 | -) 5 In C++ classes, we can control the access to the members of the class using Access Specifiers. Also known as access modifier, they are the keywords that are specified in the class and all the members of the class under that access specifier will have particular access level. In C++, there are 3 access specifiers that are as follows: 1. Public: Members declared as public can be accessed from outside the class. 2. Private: Members declared as private can only be accessed within the class Co 3. Protected: Members declared as protected can be accessed within the ee Class and by derived classes

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