C++: Objects

Welcome to the Cow Corporation's series of videos about software engineering. The topic of this video is C++ objects. Prerequisite Knowledge: Table of Contents (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFvHtpPPV_k) Desktop Apps (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NO4APs4Io8) Desktop Apps→C++ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNwIlsb9wqs) Previous Video in this Series: Desktop Apps→C++→Program Flow→Deprecating a Function (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYGIBsPG-bo) List of Topics about Desktop Apps→C++→Objects: D→C→O→Accessibility (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vreeZ5WSvU) D→C→O→Unwanted Compiler-Generated Functions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSQTwVVe518) D→C→O→Constructors D→C→O→C→Ordering (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VORG1mNzb-I) D→C→O→C→Initialization by Copy-Constructor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_HpPgyD624) D→C→O→C→Initialization by One-Parameter-Constructor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNgfZy8xMGY) D→C→O→C→Keeping Default Constructor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrRP1CVnAmw) D→C→O→C→Delegation within Class (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPlT1me8Wn8) D→C→O→C→Memory Full (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpLTF9aaVpk) D→C→O→C→Placement New (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCi4zgkrVxk) D→C→O→Destructors (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAoZTpoNXNA) D→C→O→Const Members D→C→O→C→Const Data Members (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtLNlc6hEDQ) D→C→O→C→Const Member Functions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqcVFW9Bot4) D→C→O→Static Members D→C→O→S→Static Data Members (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P-hhy90XJg) D→C→O→S→Static Member Functions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sot0kzsOFpc) D→C→O→Inheritance D→C→O→I→Polymorphism Syntax (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rcdT8sBDYc) D→C→O→I→Qualification Syntax (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEFzP--qQI0) D→C→O→I→Restricted Overriding (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOKE5FYkzJg) D→C→O→I→Multiple Inheritance (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBclIK-Fbuw) D→C→O→Operator Overloading (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPQLgK410eE) D→C→O→Nested Classes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5MTioAx0Ic) D→C→O→Pointer to Members (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBHgGcSsags) D→C→O→Low-Level C Structures D→C→O→L→Union (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upayeO_hq4s) D→C→O→L→Flexible-Array-Member (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=674CQafcB7I) D→C→O→L→Bitfield (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf0G2G0VuRc) Next Video in this Series: Desktop Apps→C++→Objects (Part Two) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xScQOyGA3Ak) Copyright 2026 Cow Corporation. All rights reserved. cowcorporation.com You are welcome to view this video. However, it is not intended to have any value other than as a set of notes for our own reference. This video comes with no guarantee of suitability for any particular purpose; use at your own risk. Music used with permission: "Take You On" by James Mercy (featuring PhiloSofie). Music provided by http://spot.fi/NCS 0:00 Intro 0:32 Video 14:40 Outro