C++ Access Specifiers

Access Specifiers

By now, you are quite familiar with the public keyword that appears in all of our class examples:

Example

class MyClass {  // The class
  public:        // Access specifier
    // class members goes here
};

The public keyword is an access specifier. Access specifiers define how the members (attributes and methods) of a class can be accessed. In the example above, the members are public – which means that they can be accessed and modified from outside the code. Continue reading C++ Access Specifiers