🌟 OOPS Concepts

🔒 Encapsulation

Encapsulation is the process of bundling data and the functions that operate on that data into a single unit, while restricting access to some internal components. This hides the internal state and requires all interactions to happen through methods.

🚗 Example:

Consider a Car class. It encapsulates data like make, model, year, and has methods like start(), stop(), and accelerate(). The internal workings of these methods are hidden from the user.

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🎭 Abstraction

Abstraction allows us to focus on the essential features of an object without getting into the details of how it's implemented. It simplifies complex realities by modeling classes appropriately.

🖌️ Example:

A Shape class may have methods like draw() and calculateArea(). Whether it's a Circle or a Rectangle, you don’t need to know how the calculations are performed—just that they work.

• Encapsulation: Information hiding
• Abstraction: Implementation hiding

📝 Example in C++:

class Foo {
    private:
        int a, b;
    public:
        Foo(int x=0, int y=0) : a(x), b(y) {}

        int add() {
            return a + b;
        }
};

Here, the internal data a and b are hidden.
➡️ Encapsulation hides the internal structure of the class.
When calling add(), how the function works is hidden.
➡️ Abstraction hides the method's internal implementation.

Foo foo_obj(3, 4);
int sum = foo_obj.add();

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🔄 Polymorphism

Polymorphism enables us to define a single interface or method that works across different types. It comes in two forms: method overriding and method overloading.

🐕 Example:

Animal class may have a method makeSound(). Subclasses like Dog and Cat can override this method to provide specific behavior. This lets us handle multiple types of animals using a single method call:

Animal dog = new Dog();
dog.makeSound();  // Outputs "Bark!"

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🧬 Inheritance

Inheritance is a mechanism that allows a new class to inherit properties and methods from an existing class, promoting reusability.

🚗 Example:

A Vehicle class with properties like speed and methods like move() can be inherited by a Car class, which will automatically gain access to these features.

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🛠 Virtual Functions

Virtual functions in C++ enable run-time polymorphism, allowing derived classes to modify behaviors defined in a base class.

class Animal {
    virtual void makeSound() { cout << "Some sound"; }
};
class Dog : public Animal {
    void makeSound() { cout << "Bark!"; }
};

This allows dynamic behavior based on the object type at runtime.

Animal* myDog = new Dog();
myDog->makeSound();

📜Static Keyword