Class

The Concept

A class is a core concept of object-oriented programming. It provides a template for creating instances of this class. Besides data, classes also have behavior (methods) associated with them.

A class is a type of product type.

What to cover

• What is a class? Why use classes?
• How to define classes. What is the syntax to define a class?
• How to create instances of a class. The syntax to create a new instance of a class.
• Access members of a class. How to use fields/methods on a class instance.

Exercises

Remote Control Car

This exercise models a remote control car that keeps track of the distance it has driven and its battery charge percentage. The reference implementation (C#) teaches:

• Defining a class.
• Creating an instance of a class.
• Defining a field on a class.
• Update a field on a class.
• Restrict access to fields using access modifiers

Implementations

Track	Exercise	Changes
C#	elons-toys	None