Access Modifiers
Explore how access modifiers in C++ regulate access to class members. Understand the roles of private, public, and protected modifiers to help you keep data secure, control program interaction, and prepare for inheritance concepts.
In C++, we can impose access restrictions on different data members and member functions. The restrictions are specified through access modifiers. Access modifiers are tags we can associate with each member to define which parts of the program can access it directly.
There are three types of access modifiers. Let’s take a look at them ...