Thread: class and struct

I'm just starting to program and I'm trying to figure out what the difference in a struct and a class is? I've tried google, but I'm still confused. Could someone give me a hand?

Struct makes more sense.
A struct holds data only
classes hold data AND functions

Thanks for the responses....I supposed I shouldn't even bother to ask about what you mean by ineritance yet...

As far as you are concerned, there is no difference. There is one tiny difference, but don't worry about it now. In C++, you use classes.

Ok cool.

So with classes then I put all my variables in one place instead of at the top of my program?....

Nevermind, I'm dumb. I just found the answer in the tutorial. \

Thanks andyhunter!

No I have it all figured out now i think....I was confusing how classes worked with global variables. If I use classes then I don't have to have global variables right?


thanks for all of the help!!!!!!

Originally Posted by andyhunter

By default a structures members are public and a class's members are private. Class's support the concept of inheritance, yada, yada, yada.

...so do structs. There is no yada, yada, yada.

Code:

#include<iostream>
using namespace std;

struct A
{
	int x;
};

struct B: public A
{
	int y;
};

int main()
{
	B b;
	b.x = 10;
	b.y = 20;

	cout<<b.x<<endl<<b.y<<endl;

	return 0;
}

If I use classes then I don't have to have global variables right?

I would hazard to guess that you shouldn't be using global variables at all as a beginner. Classes are much different than variables of type int, float, string, etc.

I posted a simple example of inheritance above. Basically, if one class inherits another class, it has all it's variables and functions.