5.12. Summary
The point of this chapter was to introduce you to the role of the C# class type. As you have seen, classes can take any number of constructors that enable the object user to establish the state of the object upon creation. This chapter also illustrated several class design techniques (and related keywords). Recall that the this keyword can be used to obtain access to the current object, the static keyword allows you to define fields and members that are bound at the class (not object) level, and the const keyword (and readonly modifier) allows you to define a point of data that can never change after the initial assignment.
The bulk of this chapter dug into the details of the first pillar of OOP: encapsulation. Here you learned ...
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