Public, protected and private are three access specifiers in C++. 1. Public data members and member functions are accessible outside the class.2. Protected data members and member functions are only available to derived classes.3. Private data members and member functions can’t be accessed outside the class. However there is an exception can be using friend classes.

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• Jun 26th, 2015

Can we use protected specifier first than public than private in a class definition in c++ by making class

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• Nov 14th, 2009

Private Protected and Public all these are access specifiers.Private Data Members are only available inside classProtected Data Members are  only available inside class as well as in derived classes.Public Data members are available everywhere

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