Glossary of C++ terms.

Abstraction - The identification of an object and its constituent parts.

Base Class - A class that is inherited by other classes.

Class -

Derivation - See Inheritance

Derived Class - A class that inherits methods from a base class and add its own methods.

Encapsulation - The hiding of data.

Inheritance - Creation of a class from an existing class. The new class inherits data and behavior from the original class.

method -

Object -

Polymorphism - is the ability for objects derived from the same base class to react to a message in a unique way.

SubClass - See Derived Classes

SuperClass - See Base Classes