Classes are custom operands. Also called custom data types. Also called custom objects. Also, classes are reference types. They are the bread and butter of object oriented programming. Put on your seat belts because there's a lot to talk about.

First things first, a class is an abstraction of a real life object, like a tree, or a ball, or a car, or anything really. By abstraction i mean the "idea of a tree", there's many trees, but the concept of tree is only one. The things "defining" a class are it's members, but more about that later. For now we'll focus on writing the most basic, empty class.

Defining a class

The class definition (or declaration) is a declarative statement. It's done using the class keyword followed by whatever name you want to give that class, and a scope. Example:

class ThisIsMyClassNameForRealz
{
	
}

That's it, that's how you create a class.

Using a class

You use a class the same way you would use any other data type. The simplest example is being able to create a variable of your class.

int x;
ThisIsMyClassNameForRealz y;