C++ Tutorial : structures and abstract datatypes C/C++ - part 1

Playlist of the series :    • Playlist   In this video, I introduce the viewer to abstract data types and modeling them in C/C++ use structures, or "structs" for short. I demonstrate how to create a new data type, an abstract data type, using the struct mechanism. We then define variables using our new data type and assign values to the variables and retrieve values using the dot operator. abstract data types are data types created by the programmer and can be used to represent real world things such as students, or cars, or maybe monsters in a fantasy rpg. These are implemented using the struct construct within the language, and let us wrap up multiple values inside one data type, much like an array is like a variable that can hold more than one value. Unlike arrays, structs can hold values of different types. In later videos, I will show you how to pass structs to functions, return them from functions, create arrays of structs, and use structs with dynamic memory allocation.