This book describes an alternate class methodology that provides complete data hiding and fault-tolerant run-time type checking of objects in C programs. With it, you will produce code that contains fewer bugs. The class methodology helps to prevent bugs by making it easier to write C code. It does this by eliminating data structures (class declarations) from include files, which makes a project easier to understand (because there is not as much global information), which makes it easier to write C code, which helps to eliminate bugs.

It is said that ``computer science is [the] science of abstraction[2].'' But what exactly is abstraction? Abstraction is ``the idea of a quality thought of apart from any particular object or real thing having that quality''[9]. For example, we can think about the size of an object without knowing what that object is. Similarly, we can think about the way a car is driven without knowing its model or make. Abstraction is used to suppress irrelevant details while at the same time emphasizing relevant ones. The benefit of abstraction is that it makes it easier for the programmer to think about the problem to be solved.

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