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theory and terminology (a) What is the purpose of the keywords public and
private in the class declaration? (b) What is the difference between a class
and an object? (c) What does it mean to “instantiate” an object? (d) What is
the purpose of a constructor? (e) What is the difference between the default
constructor and the overloaded constructor? (f) What is the purpose of a
destructor? (g) What is the purpose of an accessor? (h) What is the purpose
of a mutator? (i) What is the purpose of the scope resolution operator? (j)
What is the difference between the scope resolution operator and the dot
operator? (k) What is the difference between a member function and an
ordinary function? (l) What is an abstract data type (ADT)? (m) How do we
create an ADT? (n) What are the advantages of using ADTs? (o) What is
separate compilation? (p) What are the advantages of separate compilation?
(q) What is a derived class? (r) What is the purpose of inheritance?
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Question 3 Consider the following class declaration: class PersonType {
public: PersonType(); PersonType(string n, int id, string bd); private: string
name; int ID; string birthday; }; Explain what is wrong with the following code
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