[Hadean Fall]

I was wondering if anyone new of a good classes tutorial, all the ones i found didn't explain them well enough, i am looking for a good in depth one that explains it step by step,
thanks in advance

[hulla]

I also sucked at classes and grieved about it for about a full day before I created my own reference notes on them by a compilation of code examples, explanations and concepts. I used CPlusPlus.com, LearnCpp.com and DreamInCode.net

I suggest you try the same approach.
Classes are actually very easy for me, it's just that I was never very good at data-structures so I suggest, if you are bad at structs then practice, practice, practice them until you become very good.

All the best. You're not the only one who is/was weak in classes at first.

This post has been edited by hulla: 05 September 2011 - 07:50 AM

[jimblumberg]

Have you looked at the two Class links from this page: C++ Language Tutorial. If you did what don't you understand?

Jim

[Hadean Fall]

Anyone know of a good structs tutorial, any help will be appreciated

[macosxnerd101]

Have you checked out the DIC Tutorials yet?

[darek9576]

I will give you 2 min tutorial.

Unlike arrays, structs can contain different types, e.g.

struct person
{
    string name;
    int age;
};   //note the semi colon!!!

You can initialize them like arrays!:

person a = {"bob the builder",12};

You can get the stuff out!:

void printPerson(person p)
{
  std::cout << p.name << std::endl;
  std::cout << p.age << std::endl;
}

If you pass the pointer to the struct, you CANT use dot operator!:

void printPerson2(person* p)
{
   std::cout << p->name << std::endl;
   std::cout << p->age << std::endl;
}

You could use the dot operator in the above example but then you would have to do:

void printPerson3(person* p)
{
  std::cout << (*p).name << std::endl;
  std::cout << (*p).age << std::endl;
}

Good luck.

[Hadean Fall]

thanks it makes more sense now

[macosxnerd101]

I've gone ahead and merged your two threads requesting tutorials since the answers in your first one are relevant for both topics.

[Hadean Fall]

thanks, at least there are still cool people in this world

[Bench]

Hadean Fall, on 05 September 2011 - 04:49 PM, said:

Anyone know of a good structs tutorial, any help will be appreciated

This is essentially a repeat of your original question - structs and classes are identical in C++. The only difference is their default access-specifier for members (If you don't know what that is yet, then you will after reading one of the tutorials on classes). In other words, there's absolutely nothing which a class can do which cannot also be done in exactly the same way using a struct.

[hulla]

You forgot about the fact that a class can contain functions. Structs cannot contain functions.

[PlasticineGuy]

Yes they can. They cannot in C (where classes do not exist), but they can in C++.

You're thinking of C#.
In this language, structs are very different to classes (though they exist side by side). In C#, all classes are created on the heap (think Foo foo = new Foo();) whereas structs are created on the stack, and also cannot contain functions (think Foo foo;[il]).

However, in C++ [il]struct Foo { is exactly identical in all ways to:

class Foo {
    public:
        

Note that is considered bad style to use structs for objects designed to have many functions. A struct is usually preferred if you have no or very few functions. Constructors and operators are also often included in structs.

This post has been edited by PlasticineGuy: 06 September 2011 - 03:48 AM

[hulla]

Oh sorry. My mistake. :s