I would suggest reading THIS and THIS

Classes and Objects may seem confusing at first, but once you start using them, you'll like what they can do - they are very versatile.

OK, that is a rather large bill of things to request.

Take a look at the tutorial in my sig, the coding starts in part 2, and you will see classes in action and with real world examples.

Simplest way to describe it, classes are a way of organizing your code into logical units. A class is a template or model from which objects are created ( a class is a thing, an object is an instance of a thing. For example, my car is a Hyundai Veloster. A Veloster is a class, while MY Veloster is an object ). A class can have both methods ( functions ) and variables. Access to these functions can be public, private or restricted to other classes. You can use one class to create another derived class, and this is called inheritance.

Thats the 1000 foot explanation, now go read the tutorial for actual examples.


EDIT: Added link, as if I change my sig, suddenly this post will make very little sense in the future...

markrodgers11, the sooner you learn Classes the easier programming life becomes! Just picture programming an RPG, and you have the Enemy Class. You can use it as a template for hundreds of different enemies! It's a life saver, not to mention you can easily transfer those Classes into other projects by copying the .h and .cpp file over! If it wasn't for reusable code, I would surely go mad.