Explain the difference between the protected and public members of a class.
OOPs
In today's technology-driven world, computer programming skills are in high demand. The object-oriented programming (OOP) approach is very much useful while designing and maintaining software programs. Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a basic programming paradigm that almost every developer has used at some stage in their career.
Constructor
The easiest way to think of a constructor in object-oriented programming (OOP) languages is:
Explain the difference between the protected and public members of a class.
![](/static/compass_v2/shared-icons/check-mark.png)
Since you are not specified the programming language, we are answering the question in C++. Thank you!
Access specifiers:
Access specifiers in C++ class are used to define the access control rules for the member functions and member variables.
- Access specifiers are used to set boundaries for the member variables and member functions.
- It is succeeded with the single colon ":"at the end.
- One, two or all 3 access specifiers can be used in the same class in order to set different boundaries for different class members.
In C++, there are three type of access specifiers. They are,
- Public
- Private
- Protected
Step by step
Solved in 2 steps with 1 images
![Blurred answer](/static/compass_v2/solution-images/blurred-answer.jpg)
![C++ Programming: From Problem Analysis to Program…](https://www.bartleby.com/isbn_cover_images/9781337102087/9781337102087_smallCoverImage.gif)
![C++ for Engineers and Scientists](https://www.bartleby.com/isbn_cover_images/9781133187844/9781133187844_smallCoverImage.gif)
![Systems Architecture](https://www.bartleby.com/isbn_cover_images/9781305080195/9781305080195_smallCoverImage.gif)
![C++ Programming: From Problem Analysis to Program…](https://www.bartleby.com/isbn_cover_images/9781337102087/9781337102087_smallCoverImage.gif)
![C++ for Engineers and Scientists](https://www.bartleby.com/isbn_cover_images/9781133187844/9781133187844_smallCoverImage.gif)
![Systems Architecture](https://www.bartleby.com/isbn_cover_images/9781305080195/9781305080195_smallCoverImage.gif)
![EBK JAVA PROGRAMMING](https://www.bartleby.com/isbn_cover_images/9781337671385/9781337671385_smallCoverImage.jpg)
![Microsoft Visual C#](https://www.bartleby.com/isbn_cover_images/9781337102100/9781337102100_smallCoverImage.gif)