KwickClips Cyber Safety and Ethics · 43 sec · free
What did C++ add to C?
Short answer. Classes.
What did classes give?
Data hiding and reuse.
Problems in big C code
| Any function could change data |
| Hard to model real things |
| Reuse meant copy and paste |
Remember
| C++ added classes to C |
| Data hiding + reuse |
C was powerful. So why was C plus plus made? Big C programs had problems. Any function could change global data. Real things were hard to model. Reuse meant copying code. C plus plus added classes to C. That gave data hiding and reuse.
This clip is from the full lesson: Basic Concepts of OOP in C++ — 8 minutes, with the tables, the quick answers and the whole lesson in text.
Useful for: NIOS Senior Secondary Computer Science (330)
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